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Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
...Prince Igor Troubetskoy, husband of ailing Millionairess Barbara button, announced that he would be a contestant in the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race next Memorial Day. Did Barbara approve? "Of course not," said the prince, "but she respects the freedom of the individual...
...Metropolitan Opera House last week for the opening of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the wiry, sandy-haired little conductor who took the podium for the second ballet looked vaguely familiar. When he began to conduct, it was with some of the flapping firebird motions of Igor Stravinsky. But it was not Igor. It was his son, Soulima Stravinsky (TIME, July 26, 1948), who was making his U.S. debut as a conductor and composer...
Soulima, 39 ("born between Firebird and Petrouchka"), lives with his wife Franchise and son Jean, 4, only a few bars and beats away from Igor in Hollywood. But he has not yet found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as "Stravinsky." He has been too busy "living with Scarlatti" (he will record some sonatas for Allegro records this week) and preparing for his first U.S. piano concert tour. All summer, he taught piano six hours a day at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara...
Born in Switzerland but brought up in France, Soulima remained behind and joined the French army when father Igor came to the U.S. in 1939. Soulima thinks the temporary separation was a good thing. Says he with a smile: "Now that I have begun to work out of my father's reflected glory, I want to stay...