My love affair with Igor S.

[Bekah]

I read Rites of Spring a couple years ago and found it to be very,  
very good.   Proud Tower is excellent as are all of Tuchman's  
books.   But even with all that,  when I think of Stravinsky I think  
of my mom's old 78s and Europe Central by Vollman.

Bekah



On Dec 27, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56607
>
> Proud Tower
> Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
>
> http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345405012
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56607
>
> Pyramids at the Louvre
> Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists
> Glenn Watkins
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WATPYR.html
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56611
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56612
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72817
>
>> 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 ...