Word: soulima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capriccio for Soulima. This week, in Colorado's magnificent outdoor Red Rocks Theater, which huddles between two giant crags, Stravinsky will conduct the Denver Symphony Orchestra in his own melodious Capriccio for piano and orchestra. To a family man like Stravinsky, this will be a special occasion. While he crouches and flaps on the podium like some grotesque little firebird about to take wing, his pianist son, Soulima, will be the soloist...
...Soulima, the next to the youngest of Stravinsky's three living children, has just flown in from Paris for his first visit with his father in nine years. In Europe, Soulima is known as the foremost interpreter of his father's piano music-so much so that he has to beg impresarios to let him play something else. Says Soulima: "I say to them, 'I will play Stravinsky if I can also play some Chopin, Schumann or Mozart.' Now they...
...Italy with him during World War I, Italian police, deciding that it was a plan for a fortification, detained him at the border. Descendant of a long line of Polish aristocrats who moved to Russia in the 18th Century, his full name is Count Igor Feodorovitch Soulima-Stravinsky...