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`A Soldier's Tale' at Steppenwolf Theatre
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Five may be the lucky number for Stravinsky's "The Soldier's
Tale" in Chicago this spring.
In the past six weeks, local audiences have encountered no
fewer than five versions of the theater piece about a soldier's
run-in with the devil that Stravinsky concocted with Swiss poet
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz in 1918. Excerpts from the score popped up
in a dance by the Bill T. Jones company at Arie Crown Theatre in
early April. A few weeks later Wynton Marsalis and the Chamber Music
So...
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 "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.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... personality was wilfully obscured. His funeral in 1971 made primetime news, the coffin bobbing on a gondola through Venice to reside sentimentally ... but was so shaken that, talking to Craft, he referred only to news ... received of the death of my brother . AN identical tragedy ...
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Stravinsky's `Soldier's Tale' marching on
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Stravinsky's `Soldier's Tale' marching on Thursday, February 1, 2001 In the devastation of the aftermath of World War I, the big ballets -- the scores for which had made Stravinsky's pre-war reputation -- were not practical. So Stravinsky and friends thought small. The result was "A Soldier's
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Brave effort finds the devil is in the details; MUSICAL THEATRE: The Soldier's Tale, Old Vic.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: FIONA MADDOCKS IF ART were measured by expenditure of spirit, this Motion Group collaboration at the Old Vic would win every prize going. Iraqi and British actors have pooled skills to make an Anglo-Arabic, parallel text version of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, the story of a poor fool
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Caring for Stravinsky
Musical Times
; Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Peter Hill Cambridge UP (Cambridge, 2000), x, pp.170; L26.95/L9.95. ISBN 0 521 62221 2/ 0 521 62714 1. Stravinsky's late music Joseph N. Straus Cambridge UP (Cambridge, 2001); xviii, 260pp; L45, ISBN 0 521 80220 2. Stravinsky inside out Charles M. Joseph Yale UP (New
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Universal soldier; Saddam's notorious torture-house is the setting for a joint British and Iraqi take on Igor Stravinsky and CF Ramuz's musical tale of temptation. By Michael Church.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Michael Church The chugging strains filling the Old Vic rehearsal room are unmistakably those of the first-ever piece of music theatre: Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat for violin, woodwind, brass, drum, and actors. Suddenly two new instruments change the music's colour: with the addition
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Proms Stravinsky Day Royal Albert Hall, London
The Independent - London
; ... How could just about every commentator ignore the anti-semitism of the central text in the Cantata, composed in 1951-52, when news of the Holocaust was still fresh? The answer, according to Taruskin, lies in the lofty distaste of most Stravinskyan writers ...
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Stravinsky goes lovingly into CD age with 22-disc set
Chicago Sun-Times
; No composer of great reputation has been so completely recorded as a performer as Igor Stravinsky. From his first piano disc in 1925 through his first recording as a conductor three years later to his final session in 1967 (four years before his death), he was consistently before the public as an
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`Glimpses' of Stravinsky Often Leave Reader Adrift
Chicago Sun-Times
; Stravinsky Glimpses of a Life. By Robert Craft. St. Martin's Press. $22.95. Robert Craft's latest book about composer Igor Stravinsky is peculiar reading. Until the second half, which focuses on specific works and includes longer essays, the book reads like jottings from a notebook. Much of the
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"Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934"
Chicago Sun-Times
; "Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934" By Stephen Walsh Knopf, 696 pages. $35 The composer Igor Stravinsky looms huge over the 20th century, mostly because of his music in all its variety, but also because of the assiduous industry of his chronicler, Robert Craft, and his
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CLASSICAL: Stravinsky at his most radical In both versions of his Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Stravinsky offered his greatest challenge to Western music. Bayan Northcott reveals the tangled story of their creation
The Independent - London
; Igor Stravinsky was much possessed by death - and not only during his increasingly creaky old age. In addition to the diversity of attitudes to mortality represented in so many of his theatrical and vocal works - drawn from ancient myths, folklore, fairy tales or the Bible, including a personal
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