Word: soulima
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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...
...friends who saw them together, they were almost dead ringers: Soulima's features seem to be just an understatement of his father's-the conical, coconut-shaped head and palm-frond ears, protruding nose, with a stubble of sandy mustache above pendulous lips. Stravinsky is shorter (about...
...poor, but he is not a rich man either. Had Russia joined the International Copyright Union, he might have been. As it is, all of his early, most performed works have been pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
...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...