Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood Bowl Symphony (Sun. p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting an all-Tchaikovsky program...
Another time a Hollywood studio offered Stravinsky $100,000 for three musical scores a year. Replied Stravinsky: "To turn out one worthwhile piece of music in a year is enough. To guarantee three is to make a deceit...
...century's great composers makes his home in Hollywood-surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they're missing something. Every so often the word goes out to Igor Stravinsky-an austere, fastidious and independent little man-that a movie mogul wishes...
...crammed but meticulously neat workroom of his modest, flower-banked home on a hill overlooking Hollywood's famed Sunset "Strip," Stravinsky is now writing an opera (with Poet W. H. Auden) fashioned from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and has just finished a Mass to "appeal directly to the spirit. Therefore, I sought very cold music, absolutely cold. No women's voices. They are by their very nature warm; they appeal to the senses...
...Stravinsky is not poor, but he is not a rich man either. Had Russia joined the International Copyright Union, he might have been. As it is, all of his early, most performed works have been pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...