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Stravinsky and His World

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by Levitz, Tamara


  Universal, El (Mexico City), “Igor Stravinsky, The Eminent Composer and Conductor,” 200–201

  Urueta, Chano, 144, 145, 161

  Uruguay, 154, 220n91

  Ustvolskaya, Galina, 298

  Ustilug (Ukraine), 8

  Valéry, Paul, 202, 204, 213, 333; “Poésie et pensée abstraite,” 220n102; “Première leçon du cours de poétique,” 220n100

  Vallribera, Pere, 217n62

  Vanity Fair, 22, 24, 39–41, 54n23, 58n72

  Varunts, Viktor, 65, 68, 74n8, n19, n26, 226, 310n36

  Vela, Arqueles, 220n97, 221n103, n105; “An Hour with Stravinsky,” 201–3,

  Velázquez, Diego, 183, 215n20

  Venice, 326

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 34, 198; Rigoletto, 187, 240

  Vershinina, Irina, 63, 68, 75n41; Ranniye baletï Stravinskogo, 72

  Verstovsky, Aleksey, 29, 56n41

  Veu de Catalunya, 191–95, 218n67

  Victory, P., “A Conversation with Stravinsky,” 183–85

  Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 149

  Villar, Rogelio, 173n28

  Vincent, John, 281

  Viñes, Ricardo, 129, 148

  Virgil, Eclogues, 9

  Vitrac, Roger, 55n27

  Vivaldi, Antonio, 180; The Four Seasons, 260

  Volkonsky, Andrey, 278, 304; Musica Stricta, 312n63

  Voz, La (Madrid), 183–85

  Vrubel, Mikhail, 131

  Vuillermoz, Emile, 22, 28, 33, 53n7, 55n36, n39, 56n49; “Mavra,” 28

  Vustin, Alexander, The Word, 260

  Vyorstï (Paris), 44–52, 127

  Wagner, Richard, 3, 29, 38, 45, 48, 57n53, 66, 131, 138, 184, 187, 216n45, 231, 239, 240, 244, 266, 321, 328, 334, 341, 343

  Wallace, Beryl, 222n133

  Walsh, Stephen, 19n24, 104n7, 107, 309n33, 319

  Washington Post (& Times Herald), 3, 280

  Waxman, Franz, 311n57

  Weber, Carl Maria von, 43, 240

  Webern, Anton, 7, 66, 277, 278, 285, 310n35, 333, 342

  Weill, Kurt, 54n26, 308n7

  Weiss, Louise, 170

  Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Radio Cologne), 291, 292

  White, Eric Walter, 14–15, 67

  Wiéner, Jean, 22, 53n10

  Wilde, Oscar, 131, 289

  Wilder, Billy, 223n135

  Wilson, Edmund, 325

  Wolf, Hugo, 8, 216n45

  World Council of Churches, 76n51

  World of Art (Mir iskusstva) movement, 266, 327, 328, 330, 338

  World War I, 4, 11, 13, 35, 63, 111, 146, 149, 154, 206, 219n79, 339

  World War II, 4, 8, 11, 19n23, n24, 63, 158, 161, 200, 203, 275, 324

  Yarustovsky, Boris, 72, 284, 312–13n78

  Yastrebtsev, Vasily, 282, 312n65

  Yefremov, Pyotr, 67

  Yelachich cousins, 19n24

  Yershov, Ivan, 257

  Yesenin, Sergey, 188

  Yevraziya, 127–29, 138n1, n2

  Yudina, Maria, 77n69, 259, 280, 282, 285, 291, 293, 305, 311n14, 312n63, 313n80, n81, n93, 315n117, n128, n130, 316n147, n166, 317n173; books and scores sent to Stravinsky by, 69, 71, 76n60, 317n168; performances and recordings of, 258, 313n82, n84, n94, 314n98, n99, n104, n105; Stravinsky’s correspondence with, 69, 71, 76n58, n60, 278, 279, 284, 290, 311n50, n51, 314n114, 315n135, 317n175; Suvchinsky’s correspondence with, 66, 71, 76n58, 278, 279, 281, 283, 287, 288, 292, 294–97, 300–307, 310n36, n39, 311n47, n48, 315n117, 317n175

  Zamora, Niceto Alcalá, 219n90

  Zemlinsky, Alexander, 324–25

  Zhdanov, Andrey, 259

  Zhivotov, Aleksey, Fragments for Nonet, 258

  Znamenny chant, 270n33

  Notes on Contributors

  Tatiana Baranova Monighetti graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. Later, while working in the conservatory’s music theory department, she organized the first international conference held in Russia on music of the pre-Classical period. She has lectured extensively in Europe and the United States, and published over fifty articles in scholarly journals. After leaving Russia Dr. Baranova Monighetti worked at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, and in recent years has conducted research at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel.

  Bridget Behrmann (translator) graduated from Bard College and is completing a PhD in French and Italian at Princeton University. Her dissertation focuses on the poetic movement le Parnasse and relationships between poetry and science. Currently she is working on a translation of selections from Sully Prudhomme’s poetry.

  Leon Botstein is president and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts of Bard College, author of several books and editor of The Compleat Brahms (1999) and The Musical Quarterly. The music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, he has recorded works by, among others, Szymanowski, Hartmann, Bruch, Dukas, Foulds, Toch, Dohnányi, Bruckner, Chausson, Richard Strauss, Mendelssohn, Popov, Shostakovich, and Liszt.

  Jonathan Cross is professor of musicology at the University of Oxford, and Student in Music (fellow) at Christ Church, Oxford. He has written extensively on Stravinsky, including the acclaimed monograph The Stravinsky Legacy (1998), and as editor of The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky (2003). He is currently completing a “critical life” of the composer for Reaktion Press. He has worked widely on issues in modernism and contemporary music and is an associate editor of Grove Music Online.

  Valérie Dufour is an advanced research scholar at the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and teaches musicology at the Univeristé libre de Bruxelles. She has written and edited several articles and books on Igor Stravinsky—most recently Confidences sur la musique: Ecrits et entretiens d’Igor Stravinsky (2013)—and on the history of intellectual discourse around music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With Michel Duchesneau and Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis she edited the collection Ecrits de compositeurs: Une autorité en questions (2013). Dufour is currently interested in questions of urban geography and the role of metropolitanization in the development of musical life.

  Katya Ermolaev (translator) is a PhD candidate in musicology at Princeton University where she is writing her dissertation on Sergey Prokofiev’s film score Ivan the Terrible (directed by Sergei Eisenstein). For a concurrent second PhD from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she is co-editing the critical edition of Prokofiev’s opera War and Peace.

  Laurel E. Fay (translator) is an independent scholar and author of Shostakovich: A Life (2000), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society. She also edited Shostakovich and His World (Bard Music Festival/Princeton University Press, 2004).

  Mariel Fiori (translator) is a journalist, co-founder and managing editor of the Bard-sponsored Spanish-language magazine La Voz. She holds an MBA from New York University and a BA from Bard College. Fiori has received the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award and is a board member of Somos la Llave del Futuro, SLF, Inc., a non-profit organization that seeks to build leadership in immigrant communities.

  Alexandra Grabarchuk (translator) is a PhD student in the Department of Musicology at the University of California Los Angeles. She is currently writing a dissertation on popular music aesthetics and cultural production in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union. In addition to studying Soviet estrada, she is an avid performer of early repertoire both as singer and instrumentalist.

  Gretchen Horlacher is professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She holds a BA from Cornell and a PhD from Yale University, and as a pianist received the Prix d’excellence from the Ecole américaine de musique in Fontainebleau, France. She is the author of Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky (2011), and has published widely also about Steve Reich, theories of rhythm and meter, and sketch studies.

  Yasha Klots (translator) holds a PhD from Yale University. He has worked on émigré literature, bilingualism and literary translation, Gulag narratives, and the mythology of St. Petersburg. He is the
author of Joseph Brodsky in Lithuania (2010; in Russian), co-translator of two recent nonfiction books, and is currently working on an anthology of Russian poetry about New York City.

  Tamara Levitz is professor of musicology at the University of California Los Angeles. She has lectured and published widely on musical modernism and her work has appeared in numerous venues. Combining extensive archival research with critical interpretation, Dr. Levitz explores the intentions, motivations, sexual and gender identifications, and intricate social relations of musicians, composers, critics, ethnographers, performers, and audiences. Much of her work has focused on Ferruccio Busoni, Igor Stravinsky, and André Gide, and she recently completed the monograph Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (2012), a microhistorical analysis of the 1934 premiere of André Gide’s and Igor Stravinsky’s melodrama.

  Klára Móricz is Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College. With Christopher Hailey she is editor of Journal of Musicology. Her articles have appeared in JAMS, twentieth-century music, Notes, Cambridge Opera Journal, Pushkin Review, and American Music. Her book Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Art Music was published in 2008. With Simon Morrison she is presently editing a volume of essays entitled Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Lourié.

  Philipp Penka (translator, Bard ‘08) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He is currently working on a dissertation about Russian modernism in the context of sound recording and transmission. He lives in Berlin and Cambridge.

  Leonora Saavedra studied performance and musicology in Mexico, France, Germany and the USA and is currently associate professor at the University of California Riverside. She has served as the director of the National Center for Music Research (CENIDIM) in Mexico City and her research interests include the music of Manuel M. Ponce, Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas, Ernesto Elorduy, Aaron Copland, and the musical relations between Mexico and the United States. She was one of the founders of the Mexican music journal Pauta and her work has appeared widely in other periodicals and publications. As an active performer of new music from 1980 to 1985 she gave the first performances of numerous works by Mexican composers.

  Svetlana Savenko graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where she is currently professor of Russian music. She is the author of more than 100 publications in Russian, English, and German including the monograph Mir Stravinskogo (Stravinsky’s world; 2001), a biography of Stravinsky (2004), and the annotated Russian-language editions of Stravinsky’s Chroniques de ma vie (2004) and Poétique musicale (2nd edition 2012).

  Boris Wolfson teaches Russian culture at Amherst College. He has published on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian cultural history and is completing a study of theater, performance, and modes of self-understanding in the Soviet 1930s.

  OTHER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUMES PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL

  Brahms and His World

  edited by Walter Frisch (1990)

  Mendelssohn and His World

  edited by R. Larry Todd (1991)

  Richard Strauss and His World

  edited by Bryan Gilliam (1992)

  Dvořák and His World

  edited by Michael Beckerman (1993)

  Schumann and His World

  edited by R. Larry Todd (1994)

  Bartók and His World

  edited by Peter Laki (1995)

  Charles Ives and His World

  edited by J. Peter Burkholder (1996)

  Haydn and His World

  edited by Elaine R. Sisman (1997)

  Tchaikovsky and His World

  edited by Leslie Kearney (1998)

  Schoenberg and His World

  edited by Walter Frisch (1999)

  Beethoven and His World

  edited by Scott Burnham and Michael P. Steinberg (2000)

  Debussy and His World

  edited by Jane F. Fulcher (2001)

  Mahler and His World

  edited by Karen Painter (2002)

  Janáček and His World

  edited by Michael Beckerman (2003)

  Shostakovich and His World

  edited by Laurel E. Fay (2004)

  Aaron Copland and His World

  edited by Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick (2005)

  Franz Liszt and His World

  edited by Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley (2006)

  Edward Elgar and His World

  edited by Byron Adams (2008)

  Prokofiev and His World

  edited by Simon Morrison (2008)

  Brahms and His World (revised edition)

  edited by Walter Frisch and Kevin C. Karnes (2009)

  Richard Wagner and His World

  edited by Thomas S. Grey (2009)

  Alban Berg and His World

  edited by Christopher Hailey (2010)

  Jean Sibelius and His World

  edited by Daniel M. Grimley (2011)

  Camille Saint-Saëns and His World

  edited by Jann Pasler (2012)

 

 

 


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