Word: firebirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place, he complained in his deposition, Leeds Music Corp.'s spoony adaptation (Summer Moon-TIME, Nov. 3, 1947) of the rondo from his Firebird Suite was "devoid of musical merit" and had "declassed" him. It had also damaged him "morally" to the tune...
...Stravinsky program is an institution to some, but for most listeners it is a little tough to take. It would have been a lot more pleasant, and not as disappointing if one of the very early works such as "Firebird" had been included among the compositions played...
...Angeles, highbrow Composer Igor Stravinsky (The Firebird) sued Music Publisher Lou Levy (Beat Me Daddy) for $250,000. Levy had published a lowbrow version of a Firebird theme (TIME, Nov. 3), and described the music as Stravinsky's, said Stravinsky. He said he had positively not written it, and the whole thing was terribly humiliating...
...Rocks Theater, which huddles between two giant crags, Stravinsky will conduct the Denver Symphony Orchestra in his own melodious Capriccio for piano and orchestra. To a family man like Stravinsky, this will be a special occasion. While he crouches and flaps on the podium like some grotesque little firebird about to take wing, his pianist son, Soulima, will be the soloist...
Dissonance & Debt. In Firebird, Stravinsky had hinted at strange rhythmic innovations-accents that lurched and stuttered. In Petrouchka, he had chords embracing chords that were not even kissing cousins. In Rite of Spring, he had gone a greater distance in dissonance, and pounded the sounds home with all the drums the pit could hold...