Igor Stravinsky: An Autobiography
Igor Stravinsky: An Autobiography (written work, Book)
| Listening experiences | 1434533354643: It was in the country, where my parents, like most... 1434533505092: Another memory which often comes back is the singi... 1434533623258: My parents were not specially concerned with my mu... 1434533919191: Imagine my joy, therefore, when for the first time... 1434534104839: I remember having heard another lyrical work that ... 1434534256802: About the same time, I heard Glinka’s second opera... 1434534495728: A fortnight later my mother took me to a concert w... 1434534791314: In so far as school like permitted, I used to go t... 1434535036314: There were also great symphonic concerts given by ... 1434535192079: Hans Richter, a much better-known and more celebra... 1434535481537: I used to go also to the Belaieff Symphony Concert... 1434550866989: He [Ivan Pokrovsky] introduced me to authors of wh... 1434551533828: The following is illustrative of the attitude of t... 1434551938202: It was at this period that I became acquainted wit... 1434552910053: During the season of 1906-1907, I finished my symp... 1434553533807: On returning to the country, and wishing to pay so... 1434554293645: At the moment when I received Diaghileff’s commiss... 1434573059497: But to return to my score of L’Oiseau de Feu; I wo... 1434573166279: Returning for a moment to the music [L’Oiseau de F... 1434573420345: On our arrival in Paris, rehearsals [of Petrushka]... 1434573882918: When I returned to Paris for the Diaghileff season... 1434574072406: It I am not mistaken it was in that year, while se... 1434617246414: From Paris I went as usual to Oustiloug for the su... 1434617508974: It was on that visit to Berlin that I first met Sc... 1434617906037: While Ravel was at Clarens I played him my Japanes... 1434618133571: I have now come to the spring season of 1913 in Pa... 1434618538458: As for Debussy’s Jeux, I clearly remember having s... 1434619042887: I could, therefore, dispose of the opera ['Le Ross... 1434619301182: I think that it was in the month of April, 1914, t... 1434623547986: There was at that time in Geneva a little restaura... 1434623740984: At a fixed hour every day I heard from my room the... 1434623954422: Do not be astonished if I say nothing about Spanis... 1434624379052: I have always had a horror of listening to music w... 1434627147427: After a great many rehearsals for the actors, for ... 1434811620281: During the winter I made the acquaintance of a Cro... 1434812308740: I ought to mention here a concert which had a cert... 1434812611345: All the early part of 1920 was filled with excitem... 1434813581881: Diaghileff was just then giving a new production o... 1434813970279: In the course of this Diaghileff season at the Thé... 1434885022082: In the spring of 1921 a Paris music hall asked me ... 1434885562756: I cannot pass over in silence an event in this Lon... 1434886277443: It was a restless winter for me, as I had to trave... 1434886468997: It was quite different with 'Renard'. I still deep... 1434887133503: The first performance of 'Mavra' and 'Renard' at t... 1434887533387: The first performance of 'Les Noces' was given on ... 1434889844118: In the winter of 1922-1923 I often went to the sma... 1435163036763: We thus discovered the short but delicious comic o... 1435163484238: As I said before, I had not had a chance of seeing... 1435163970089: Side by side with forgotten works, Diaghileff had ... 1435608464392: But, though determined to retain full liberty in c... 1435608928485: As I was under an engagement to play my Concerto a... 1435609090903: Another festival of my music was given in April at... 1435609788717: I then went to Wiesbaden to take part as soloist i... 1435610052567: My last stage was at Copenhagen, where I was to co... 1435672325262: Toscanini received me in the most charming fashion... 1435672848795: The first audition of ‘Oedipus’ took place at the ... 1435673280316: While in London I had the opportunity of hearing a... 1435673792840: At the beginning of 1928 I finished composing the ... 1435674098163: At the end of February I went to Berlin for the fi... 1435674412452: Germany was definitely becoming the center of the ... 1435675348354: Soon afterwards I conducted ‘Oedipus’ in London fo... 1435676115161: On my return to Paris I played my Concerto on May ... 1435676387836: Some days later I conducted 'Oedipus' at the Salle... 1435677090042: My ballet, 'Apollo Musagetes', was given in Washin... 1435677769901: The importance of these proportions [six group of ... 1435680188709: I was generously given four rehearsals with the ad... 1435680621212: As with my other ballets, I made an orchestral sui... 1435680810761: At the beginning of the 1928-1929 season a new org... |
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