Word: stravinskian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the production of classical symphonic records continues in a slow but steady trickle. The latest releases: Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (Rochester Philharmonic, Jose Iturbi conducting; Victor; 6 sides). A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings. Performance: excellent...
...brand-new composition called Black, Brown and Beige, the polishing of which had kept the band up half the previous night. It turned out to be one of the longest (45 minutes) and most ambitious pieces of tone painting ever attempted in jazz. Flavored with everything from Stravinskian dissonance to three-four time, it often seemed too ambitious. But there were stages of the emulsion that might appeal to any musician...
...music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union, now play it at every symphony and opera performance. Stravinsky and his publisher (Mercury Music Corp...
...dentist celebrated for murdering his wife, cutting her body in pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans. To be caught in public with a pleasant tune was as embarrassing to a composer as to be caught without his pants. Every cacophony known to man was rooted out and set to music. Audiences shivered, but in vain...