Igor Stravinksy in Paris - September, 1919
from Memories and Commentaries, page 137:
The suggestion that was to lead to Pulcinella came from Diaghilev in September 1919, while we were walking together in the Place de la Concorde: ‘Don’t protest at what I am about to say. I know you are much taken by your Alpine colleagues’ – said with withering contempt – ‘but I have an idea that I think will amuse you more than anything they can propose. I want you to look at some delightful eighteenth-century music with the idea of orchestrating it for a … more >>
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Igor Stravinksy and Robert Craft, Memories and Commentaries (Queen Square, London, 2002), p. 137. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450301573776 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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written by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
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Date/Time | September, 1919 |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by verafonte on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:32:53 +0000
Approved on Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:19:32 +0100