Word: firebirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale (DM 1041). This Symphonic Poem, once intended as a Ballet and later as an Opera, is a summation of the composer's experiments in the earlier Firebird, Petrouchka, and Rite of Spring Suites, and displays more than any of them, Stravinsky's amazing command of the symphony orchestra. Both recording and performance by the Cincinnati Symphony under Eugene Goossens are only fair...
...friend Ingolf Dahl, and approved by Stravinsky. Last week the new symphony had its world premiere in Manhattan, conducted by Stravinsky, a myopic, big-eared, little man of 63, who hopped sparrowlike about the podium of Carnegie Hall. In contrast, he also played a revised version of his famed Firebird suite, which he had composed...
...great days of his ballet suites (Firebird, Petrouchka, Sacre du Printemps), Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky had been the No. 1 bad boy of music. He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind. He went on to a preoccupation with 18th-Century counterpoint, and shocked his fellow revolutionaries by having a good word for a romantic composer like Tchaikovsky. In his new symphony, Stravinsky carries his musical vagabonding a step further-blending a kind of Tchaikovskian and Brahmsian romanticism with jazzy rhythms. The Carnegie Hall audience gave...
...certain land in a certain kingdom, there lived a King called Vyslav Andronovich." The King had a garden with an apple tree that bore golden fruit. "The Firebird took to visiting King Vyslav's garden; her wings were golden and her eyes were like oriental crystals." Every night she stole the golden apples. King Vyslav called his sons: "My beloved children, which of you can catch the Firebird in my garden? To him who captures her alive I will give half my kingdom during my life, and all of it upon my death!" The princes answered with one voice...
First Prince Dimitri tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...