Stravinsky in the Americas

Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)

H. Colin Slim

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780520971530
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Stravinsky in the Americas explores the “pre-Craft” period of Igor Stravinsky’s life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky’s rise to fame—catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim’s lively narrative records the composer’s larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky’s personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways. 

Table of contents

• Imprint
• Subvention
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Abbreviated Contents
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword by Richard Taruskin
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Five Transatlantic Tours (1925–1940)
• Part II: Domestic Excursions From Wartime Los Angeles (1940–1946)
• Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism”
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index