My love affair with Igor S.

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> ... I was browsing through the discs and came across a cover with a highly
> stylized picture of a woman in a jungle and a French title, "L Sacre du
> Printemps". Antal Dorati conducting the Minneapolis Symphony and a
> composer with a Russian sounding name, Stravinsky. The clerk knew
> nothing about this Stravinsky guy, but the blurb on the back. "... riots at
> the premier..." sounded intriguing, so I coughed up my four bucks and
> change and pedaled home with the disc.

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
By Modris Eksteins

http://books.google.com/books?id=yM8lkb3z68oC
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Proud Tower
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345405012
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Pyramids at the Louvre
Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists
Glenn Watkins

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WATPYR.html
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> When Mom and Dad came home a couple of hours later, I had already listened
> to it three times. "Listen to this!", and I put the needle down at the
> beginning. My poor parents.

My Mom would have been thrilled with Stravinsky.  For me, after The
Beatles, it was Devo ...

> Since then I've gone through a dozen different recordings, (I liked Boulez's
> best and detested Berstein's) ...

Not that I'd Know, but my rule of thumb has been, if there's a Boulez
version available, go with it, esp. for the modernist stuff, so ...