Word: firebirds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Firebird Suite. In Detroit, James Scales, 60, confessed that he set fire to the home of his 42-year-old beloved, explained: "I courted her with music, but she busted my guitar over my head...
IGOR STRAVINSKY was such a firebird that he loved going to the zoo "to watch the wild animals at feeding time, when they devoured the raw meat." But in mien and in amour he was "so disciplined, so logical, so conservative." Dagmar's heart leaped when, at long last, Igor bent forward and murmured: "Come tomorrow night"-then added: "I so want you to meet my wife." Igor and Dagmar "would sit for hours sipping Dubonnet while he unburdened himself" and inveighed against his critics. "Why do they blame me for my music?" he would rage...
Wild Rhythms. In his early works, Firebird and Petrouchka, he galvanized and repelled his audiences with wild rhythms, brutal harmonies, and kaleidoscopic tone coloring of a kind they had never heard or imagined before. The Rite of Spring unleashed a cacophony of sound that set its first Paris audience to pummeling one another with fists and canes. But within a mere ten years all three works were becoming accepted in the contemporary musical language, and Stravinsky boldly moved on to a new, dry, precisely turned style-Pulcinella, Oedipus Rex, Apollon Musagetes-that had little relation to the earlier, gaudily splashed...
...Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...
...poor little rich boy there are some gold-plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...