Stravinsky

by Stephen Walsh

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  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Fondation Théodore Strawinsky, Geneva: family tea at the orangery; Catherine Stravinsky with her granddaughter (photograph: R. Heyd)

  Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel: Milène and Mika in the 1930s; Mika with her husband; with Victoria Ocampo; with Nadia Boulanger; in the Disney studios; with George Martin, Dagmar Godowsky, and Mercedes de Acosta; studying the score of Persephone (photograph: Ruth Orkin); opening scene of The Rake’s Progress (photograph: Erio Piccagliani); with Jean Cocteau (photograph: Studio Lipnitzki); rehearsing The Rake’s Progress (photograph: Erio Piccagliani); with Ernst Roth, Venice; with Craft and Pierre Boulez; with Darius and Madeleine Milhaud (photograph: Centre Culturel Américain); world premiere of Threni (photograph: Giacomelli, Venice); conducting in the early sixties; with Lillian Libman (photograph: Esther Brown); with Robert Craft, 1962; with Rimsky-Korsakov; proposing a toast; with Tikhon Khrennikov; with his niece Xenya; applauding Pierre Monteux’s Rite of Spring (photograph: Daily Mail); in his studio at 1260 North Wetherly Drive; orchestrating Bach (photograph: Dominique Cibiel)

  Getty Images: rehearsing Ebony Concerto; Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; with Balanchine, Hollywood, 1966 (photograph: Arnold Newman); with Milène, Hollywood, 1966 (photograph: Arnold Newman)

  Martha Swope: rehearsing Agon with Balanchine

  Lady Berlin: Isaiah Berlin and Nicolas Nabokov

  No credit: Igor and Vera Stravinsky in Cincinnati (photograph: Eugene Goossens); studying the Symphony in C with Craft and Alexis Haieff; Stravinsky arrives in Venice for The Rake’s Progress; Dylan Thomas at a book-signing (photograph: Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore); listening to Craft rehearsing the Canticum Sacrum (photograph: Columbia Records); with Pierre Souvtchinsky; with Robert Craft at Paestum (photograph: Robert Emmet Bright)

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  STEPHEN WALSH is a critic and musicologist who has written and broadcast extensively on Stravinsky and other aspects of twentieth-century music. He was for some years a music critic with The Observer, and he has also reviewed regularly for the London Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Listener, and most recently, The Independent. The first volume of his biography of Igor Stravinsky, A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882–1934, was published in 1999. He holds a personal chair at Cardiff University.

  Family tea at the orangery, Voreppe, 1933: Catherine and Igor Stravinsky, Anna Stravinsky, Walter Nouvel, Ira Belline, Soulima, and Theodore

  Catherine Stravinsky with her granddaughter, Kitty, 1937

  Milène and Mika (Lyudmila) Stravinsky in the 1930s

  Mika with her husband, Yury Mandelstam, Château de Monthoux, 1937

  With Victoria Ocampo, onboard ship, Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro, 1936

  With Nadia Boulanger, onboard the Paris from New York to Le Havre, 1937

  Igor and Vera Stravinsky in Cincinnati, November 1940

  In the Disney Studios, Hollywood, with Alexis Kall (far left), Balanchine (center), and Walt Disney (to Balanchine’s left), 1939

  With George Martin, Dagmar Godowsky, and Mercedes de Acosta, Hollywood, c. 1941

  Rehearsing Ebony Concerto with Woody Herman and band, New York, February 1946

  Studying the score of Persephone with James Fassett and Robert Craft, who has sneaked into the photograph, New York, 1947

  Studying the Symphony in C with Craft and Alexis Haieff, New York, 1948

  Stravinsky arrives in Venice for The Rake’s Progress, September 1951, with Auden (left) and Kallman, and greeted by the Biennale director, Ferdinando Ballo (right). Vera Stravinsky is behind Auden; Robert Craft is in the background right.

  Opening scene of The Rake’s Progress, Venice, 1951

  Rehearsing The Rake’s Progress, Venice, 1951

  Dylan Thomas at a book signing in New York, 1952

  With Jean Cocteau, Paris, 1952

  Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley, Los Angeles, 1954

  With Ernst Roth, Venice, probably 1956

  Listening to Craft rehearsing the Canticum sacrum, Venice, San Marco, September 1956

  With Craft (standing) and Pierre Boulez, in the control room during Craft’s recording of Schoenberg’s Serenade, op. 24, Hollywood, March 1957. Lawrence Morton is in the background.

  With Darius and Madeleine Milhaud, Paris, 1957

  With Pierre Souvtchinsky, Paris, October 1957

  Rehearsing Agon with Balanchine and the rehearsal pianist, Nicholas Kopeikine, New York, December 1957

  World premiere of Threni, Scuolo di San Rocco, Venice, 23 September 1958

  With Robert Craft at Paestum, October 1959

  Conducting in the early sixties

  With Lillian Libman listening to the Craft rehearsal for the Carnegie Hall Rake’s Progress November 1962

  Isaiah Berlin and Nicolas Nabokov on the lawn of Headington House, Oxford, in the 1960s

  With Robert Craft, 1962

  With Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov at dinner in the Leningrad Composers’ House, October 1962

  Proposing a toast to the Soviet Minister of Culture, Yekaterina Furtseva, and to Dmitry Shostakovich and his wife, Irina, Hotel Metropole, Moscow, 1962

  With Tikhon Khrennikov on Moscow television, September 1962

  With his niece Xenya in the Kremlin Theater, Moscow, September 1962

  Applauding Pierre Monteux’s fiftieth-anniversary Rite of Spring in the Royal Albert Hall, London, May 1963; Robert Craft is in the anteroom

  In his studio at 1260 North Wetherly Drive, c. 1963

  With Balanchine, Hollywood, 1966

  With Milène, Hollywood, 1966 (photo: Arnold Newman)

  Orchestrating Bach, New York, 1969

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Copyright © 2006 by Stephen Walsh

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Walsh, Stephen, [date]

  Stravinsky: the second exile: France and America, 1934–1971 / Stephen Walsh.

  p. cm

  eISBN: 978-0-307-75621-3

  1. Stravinsky, Igor, 1882–1971. 2. Composers—Biography. I. Title.

  ML410.S932W355 2006

  780′.92—dc22

  [B] 2005047231

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