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...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...
Bebop to Ballet. At 66, Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky, if not the greatest living composer, is certainly the most influential. Since the violent rhythms, brutal harmonies and splashing tone colors of Firebird, Petrouchka and Rite of Spring first exploded on an astonished-and unprepared -world 35 years ago, Stravinsky has been imitated, consciously or unconsciously, by composers from bebop to ballet, from Russia to the redwoods...
...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...