 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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MISSING FROM HIS MUSIC; THE MORE BOOKS WE READ ABOUT STRAVINSKY THE GREATEST COMPOSER OF 20TH CENTURY THE LESS WE KNOW.
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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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October 30, 2002| Author:
Lebrecht, Norman
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Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT
THOSE who, like BBC executives, spend their working lives making pointless lists of all-time greats will recognise the unyielding stare of Igor Stravinsky, master of the modern world. Stravinsky is commonly ranked as "greatest composer of the 20th century". David Attenborough, in his new memoir, recalls that, around 1970, he asked the composer and his pal Picasso to devise a jingle and a logo for BBC2 - the ultimate design classic.
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