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...years following The Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity...
Stravinsky's career spanned a series of distinguished creations. Petrouchka, L' Histoire du Soldat, Oedipus Rex, dozens more. But perhaps his true spirit is reflected as well in his later works, his short pieces composed when he no longer had the energy for major works. His arrangements of poems and other texts, like his setting of The Dove Descending Breaks the Air. his short fanfares, his occasional pieces and variations, all are touched by his genius. Although his health failed drastically in his later years, and most of his business was carried on by an assistant, his creative career...
...steady accumulation of astoundingly vulgar pieces of brassy claptrap and woolly woodwind shrieks which feed the voracious football band. In the face of this surging ocean of treacle stand a handful of superb works for wind, three of which--Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and Octet, and Gustav Holst's Hammer-smith: Prelude and Scherzo--were performed by the newly organized and intensely promising Harvard Wind Ensemble...
...such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvorak possess an unerring inner discrimination for the wind timbres and persuasion, while many other composers simply pay obligatory homage to the noisemakers with passages of stark, inhumane cacophony for the brass, or limpid, precious colorings for the woodwind. With such works as Soldat, Octet, Dumbarton Oaks, and Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Stravinsky is definitely a member of the former group. L'Histoire du Soldat (1918), a suite of elegant miniatures for seven players, was given a generally excellent reading under the direction of student conductor David Archibald. Mr. Archibald, although somewhat inhibited technically...
BATH FESTIVAL (June 19-29), 106 miles west of London, is guided by Yehudi Menuhin through a chamber and symphonic series that includes Mozart's one-act opera, The Impresario, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and a program of Viennese waltzes...