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...Russian tradition. The son of famed St. Petersburg Basso Feodor Stravinsky, he was raised in an aristocratic and intellectual atmosphere and became a favored pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. His first durable score, the orchestral fantasy Fireworks, was written in 1908 as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter Nadia...
After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger. He was studying composition full-time and had given up the idea of a concert career, yet he somehow found time to tour Holland, Belgium, and France as an accompanist to the singer Robert Gartside. In 1952 Berman returned to Harvard as a graduate student in Music. When Nadia Boulanger visited the United States. Berman impressarioed the concert at the Fogg Art Museum. Shortly afterward he returned to France temporarily resumed accompanying. He came back to Harvard in 1963 and began work...
...best when indulging an obsession with characters whose bodies are inhabited by insatiable demons. Nadia. of the title story, hungers to be more than herself. "If I have to be just one person," she tells her husband, "I'll kill myself." She does, and her husband is left to reflect on her not as a woman he loved without tenderness but as a natural element that he needed for his own survival. And the reader is left to reflect too. About the emptiness and boredom that addicts some people to the idea of leading serial lives, about the consumer...
Adams has studied with Nadia Boulanger, world-renowned French musician, and Frederick Prausnitz, former conductor of the New England Couservatory Orchestra...
...into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...