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...Composer Igor Stravinsky, Rubinstein shows him how to make more money (go on tour as a pianist and conductor of his own works) and how to cure his impotence (have a good dinner and visit a brothel). What he cannot do is persuade Stravinsky to write lyrically for the piano instead of percussively. The Russian was a master of his métier, Rubinstein concludes, but he lacked "an original melodic invention...
What Orthodox priests feel personally no doubt varies, but they clearly know the rules. Says Igor Sokolov, the Council for Religious Affairs spokesman on the tour: "The Orthodox Church is completely loyal to the state. It is good that its priests go to a seminary where they see the relationship clearly-the archbishops on one wall and the Soviet leaders on the other. Without this training, priests might be uneducated village people, perhaps fanatics. It is better this...
Even the septuagenarian Igor Stravinsky converted to twelve-tone composition under the sway of ''St. Anton.'' Among lesser composers, instant Webernism-compressed structures, jagged melodic leaps, spare, pointillist orchestration-became a sort of standard, freeze-dried product in the 1950s and '60s. Now that the vogue has subsided somewhat, Webern is in danger of having come and gone as an avant-garde influence without ever being absorbed into the standard repertory. A more definitive assessment is needed...
...dais at the Starlight Roof, where he was seen to light cigarette after cigarette with trembling hands. His face was at the mercy of twitches and tics, his lips were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R." Throughout the reading, the convulsive working of the composer's mouth and cheek betrayed an almost uncontrollable agitation...
Norton Lecturers from previous years include Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Northrop Frye and T.S. Eliot, Jerome H. Buckley, chairman of the English Department, said yesterday...