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When a thin, high-strung little man mounted the conductor's stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one evening last week, the big audience applauded cordially. Igor Stravinsky peered at them through his double-lensed glasses, curved his heavy lips in greeting. Though he was standing there for the first time in twelve years, few in the audience were unfamiliar with the man who, more than any other, had bent modern music to his will...
...Igor Stravinsky became an overnight celebrity in Russia when he wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter. Diaghilev commissioned him in 1910 to compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style...
Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...
...three months this winter a thin. baggy-eyed Russian, considered by many to be one of the greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, for another fortnight the Cleveland Orchestra. Contracts are pending whereby Igor Stravinsky may also appear with the bis symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published...
...from "Tannhauser"Wagner Overture, "Le Roi I'a dit" Delibes *Minuet from String Quintet Boccherini *Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square