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2022x-0520334612Univ of California Pr 2022. Paperback. New. 180 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.39 inches. Univ of California Pr paperback
0520334612.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19621004541962. First Edition. Signed. STRAVINSKY Igor. CRAFT Robert. Expositions and Developments. Garden City New York: Doubleday 1962. Octavo original black cloth original dust jacket. $2500.First edition warmly inscribed on the half title to neighbor and longtime friend Miranda Levy ""To my dear Miranda with love and kisses from I Stravinsky Nov /63.""""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for an individual sound For many years he was with Schoenberg one of the two unofficial poles of Western music"" ANB. In these conversations with his protégé conductor Robert Craft who coauthored seven books with him Stravinsky discusses his childhood in St. Petersburg Russia; recalls such musical luminaries as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; reflects on the intersection of music and modern recording technology; and discusses scores including The Firebird The Rite of Spring and his then-new work The Flood. Illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographs. Inscribed to Miranda Levy a founding member of the Santa Fe Opera and wife of pioneering television director Ralph Levy whose credits include directing the original I Love Lucy pilot episode. Miranda ""met Stravinsky at the Aspen Colorado Music Festival in 1950 then hosted him on a New Mexico visit When the composer let it be known he was interested in D.H. Lawrence Miranda introduced Stravinsky to Lawrence's widow Miranda and Ralph Levy moved to Los Angeles and bought a house less than a block from Stravinsky's Just as she had once kept Santa Feans up to date on the latest news and gossip she now regaled Igor and Vera Stravinsky with daily updates on movie studio gossip"" Albuquerque Journal.Dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends and edges. A very nearly fine inscribed presentation/association copy. hardcover
196231632New York: Doubleday 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner inscritption. Soiling and some staining. First Edition stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Doubleday hardcover
1962985Garden City 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 16 illus. 4 drawings 6 musical examples & 2 hitherto unpublished works. <br/><br/> hardcover
1979510001David R. Godine Publisher 1979. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/FINE. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Stephen Spender on half-title 'To Stathis and Ralph.' Stathis Orphanos was a photographer noted for his portraits of writers including Stephen Spender. He and his partner Ralph Sylvester also operated the Los Angeles fine-press publishing company 'Sylvester & Orphanos.' Spender collaborated with them in the publication of Graham Greene's Weed Among Flowers and Tsarouchis: The Face of Modern Greece. First Printing. 80pp. Heathered cloth orange paper label gilt spine lettering orange endpapers colour plates throughout. An exceedingly clean and crisp copy. Dust jacket has some trivial shelf wear otherwise sharp. David R. Godine Publisher hardcover
1979206092Boston: David R. Godine 1979. First Edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. Oblong 8vo 80pp; original white linen. Twenty-five color illustrations with texts by Eugene Berman Paul Horgan Aldous Huxley Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender and a biographical note by Robert Craft. David R. Godine unknown
1979311994BOSTON: DAVID R. GODINE. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0879232641 . INSCRIBED by Vera Stravinsky to Miranda Levy wife of veteran television director Ralph Levy on first blank. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. Small nick in jacket. 25 Color plates. Vera Stavinsky was the wife of composer Igor Stravinsky. LR . DAVID R. GODINE. hardcover
199530323NY: Dover Pubns. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0486285251 . The volume is in perfect pristine condition unmarked unread tight square and clean. AS NEW. Trade PB. Musical Score. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 224 pp . Dover Pubns paperback
0486285251.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
16-4196London: J. & W. Chester Ltd. 1924. 30.7x 24.4 cm. 862 2pp. Light foxing on a few pages and tfhe cover. . From the collection of the poet and playwright René Morax . He founded his Théâtre du Jorat near Mézières Switzerland in 1903. Made entirely of wood so as to be integrated into the barns of the surrounding countryside it was described this way in an early account: “A theater decidedly unlike any other. A sort of vast chalet a kind of huge barn smelling of resin dried hay fresh fruit and on days when there was a performance Sunday clothes but retaining the rustic dignity of a shrine. A large stage descending in broad steps toward the orchestra pit …â€The theater was closed for several years during the Great War and Morax conceived a drama on the subject of King David to reopen it in 1921. When he turned to his wealthy friend Werner Reinhart who incidentally had recently funded the creation of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale telling him that he was taking inspiration from Hindu theater for this work his patron offered to lend rare Hindu drums in addition to financial assistance. The text is drawn from the Hebrew Bible I and II Samuel I Kings in addition to the Huguenot Psalter which includes poetry by Clément Marot. The poet’s brother Jean Morax set to work designing costumes and sets. After several more established composers turned him down René on the advice of Stravinsky and the distinguished conductor Ernest Ansermet chose the then unknown twenty-eight year old Arthur Honegger. “When Swiss poet Rene Morax 1873-1963 was looking for a composer for his new King David libretto Stravinsky recommended the twenty-nine-year-old Arthur Honegger a composer who just six years later creating the film score for Abel Gance’s Napoleon would reveal himself as a master of music’s ability to translate epics into sweeping evocative sound. In 1921 right on the cusp of his first successes Honegger wrote the David score in a flush of creative energy.â€. Provenance from the estate of René Morax. Expertise by Claire PIGUET Geneva London: J. & W. Chester, Ltd., [1924] hardcover
1992Q-0711938415MUSIC SALES AMERICA 1992-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MUSIC SALES AMERICA paperback
19635238312" Record 33 1/3 rpm Ref L 02.306 L stars Jean Cocteau and Peter Ustinov front cover with illustraion by Jean Cocteau Published by Philips unknown
1982Q-0500012830Thames & Hudson 1982-12-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thames & Hudson hardcover
2014x-1783056762Chester Music 2014. Paperback. New. 92 pages. 13.50x9.50x0.37 inches. Chester Music paperback
1443721905.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2006Q-159615649XMusic Minus One 2006-11-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Music Minus One paperback
1014202981.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1966951091966. Rare autograph letter signed by Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky. One page type-written dated December 21st 1966 and addressed to John McClure at Columbia Records the letter reads "Dear John Please answer this Mercury Record letter for me telling them that they can have the permission though they can have it I think without asking me in any case. I have been ordered to rest -- no conducting at all -- after Chicago. This postpones our January plans I greatly regret to say and not only for me as I realize bu can't help. Happy New Year to you and your wife. Igor Stravinsky." The recipient John McClure was an American recording producer at Columbia Records throughout the 1950s and later operated in a freelance capacity. He worked on over 30 recordings with Stravinsky 200 with Leonard Bernstein and oversaw recordings by the Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams. Double matted and framed with a black and white portrait of Stravinsky. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 14.5 inches. In fine condition. Stravinsky found recordings a practical and useful tool in preserving his thoughts on the interpretation of his music. As a conductor of his own music he recorded primarily for Columbia Records beginning in 1928 with a performance of the original suite from The Firebird and concluding in 1967 with the 1945 suite from the same ballet. Although most of his recordings were made with studio musicians he also worked with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra the Cleveland Orchestra the CBC Symphony Orchestra the New York Philharmonic Orchestra the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bavarian Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. unknown
51-3548Berkeley: UC Zellerbach Hall Mya 1968. Poster in blue and black. 22.75 x 17 inches. Very good with small closed tear at lower margin."It was May of 1968 in Berkeley and Zellerbach Hall was soon to open its spacious glass doors for the first time. The program to be played: Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms†and “Oedipus Rex†conducted by Robert Craft and the celebrated composer himself. Unfortunately Stravinsky had fallen ill and was unable to conduct. But he did still attend this inaugural performance at UC Berkeley’s famous music hall — legend has it that the distracted audience was more enraptured by Stravinsky’s reaction to the music than by the actual performance itself." Berkeley: UC Zellerbach Hall, Mya 1968. unknown
51-3549Berkeley: UC Zellerbach Hall May 1968. Poster in ochre and black. 22.75 x 17 inches. Very good."It was May of 1968 in Berkeley and Zellerbach Hall was soon to open its spacious glass doors for the first time. The program to be played: Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms†and “Oedipus Rex†conducted by Robert Craft and the celebrated composer himself. Unfortunately Stravinsky had fallen ill and was unable to conduct. But he did still attend this inaugural performance at UC Berkeley’s famous music hall — legend has it that the distracted audience was more enraptured by Stravinsky’s reaction to the music than by the actual performance itself." Berkeley: UC Zellerbach Hall, May 1968. unknown
1949039407New York: Duell Sloan And Pearce 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 245 Pp. A Much-Enlarged Edition Of Armitage's 1936 Book Which Was The First English Language Book About Stravinsky With Much New Material Added. Black Cloth Printed In Yellow. End Sheets By Carlos Dyer And Edward S. Stevens Jr. Designs And Drawings By Merle Armitage And Executed By Al Ewers. Portrait Photographs By Edward Weston John Vachon Fred Plaut Arnold Newman; Portraits Of Stravinsky By Klee Pablo Picasso Russell Cowles J E Blanche Marc Chagall Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano; Drawings By Carlus Dyer And E S Stevens. Inscribed From Merle Armitage His Wife And His Daughter To Dorothy Brett. "Editor And Book Designer Merle Armitage Wrote A Book About This Time In New Mexico. Taos Quartet In Three Movements Was Originally To Appear In Flair Magazine But The Magazine Folded Before Its Publication. This Short Work Describes The Tumultuous Relationship Of D. H. Lawrence His Wife Frieda Dorothy Brett And Mabel Dodge Sterne A Wealthy Patron Of The Arts. Armitage Took It Upon Himself To Print 16 Hardcover Copies Of This Work For His Friends. Richard Pousette-Dart Executed The Drawings For Taos Quartet That Was Published In 1950." Wikipedia. A Near Fine Example With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Complete Not Price Clipped No Fading Slight Browning And Faint Splash Marks On Spine Panel 1/4" Closed Tear At Center Of Top Edge Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Duell, Sloan And Pearce hardcover
14740NY DUELL 1949. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, DUELL, 1949 unknown
191341314Berlin - Moscou - St. Petersbourg: Édition Russe de Musique PN R.M.V. 196 1913. Folio. Original publisher's ivory cloth-backed dark ivory printed boards 1f. reco title verso blank 1f. recto half-title in French verso blank 1f. recto half title in Russian verso blank 1f. recto dedication to Nicolas Roerich verso blank 9-89. i blank pp. <br /> <br /> Binding slightly worn browned and foxed with manuscript annotation to blank upper margin of upper deleted in black ink. Slightly browned throughout; corners thumbed; some minor imperfections.<br /> <br /> In very good condition overall. First Edition first issue of the four-hand piano arrangement and the first appearance in print of the music pre-dating the full score by eight years. Rare. Kirchmeyer 15-1. De Lerma S3. White 21 p. 207. Crawford p. 543. <br /> <br /> "Unlike the orchestral score which did not appear in print until early 1922 the piano-duet version was published by Édition Russe de Musique shortly before the première and was soon reissued in response to considerable demand. But special importance attaches to this four-hand version not only for historical reasons but because of its specific aesthetic quality for it directly brings out the "pianistic" nature of many of the work's musical ideas. True not for a moment do we forget that The Rite of Spring owes a large part of its impact to its orchestral sound now subtly differentiated now brutally violent. But it allows the structural workings of a piece invented at the piano and developed in close contact with the instrument to come all the more trenchantly to the fore. It was not least because of this trenchancy and "closeness to the origin" that the piano version has in recent decades begun to emerge from its primary role as an object of study and a rehearsal aid and to take on a second life as an independent concert piece. It has even formed the basis of a number of ballet productions." Meyer ed.: Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps Manuscript of the Version for Piano Four Hands Facsimile p. 23<br /> <br /> The momentous first performance of The Rite took place in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 29 May 1913. It was conducted by Monteux with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and set and costume designs by Nicolas Roerich. <br /> <br /> "It is now theatrical history that the first performance by the Russian Ballet . created a scandal of the first magnitude ." White: Stravinsky. The Composer and His Works p. 216. <br /> <br /> Since that time there have been a number of other versions of the ballet one choreographed by Leonide Massine 1920 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with Roerich's original set designs and another by Kenneth Macmillan 1962 at Covent Garden with set designs by Sydney Nolan "but the work is more popular and seems to make a greater impact in the concert hall than on the stage. <br /> <br /> Its triumphant rehabilitation as one of the most important works in the symphonic repertory of the twentieth century dates from its first concert performances - in Moscow February 1914; conductor S. Koussevitzky Paris Casino de Paris April 1914; conductor Monteux and London Queen's Hall 7 June 1921; conductor Eugene Goossens." Ibid<br /> <br /> Diaghilev referred to The Rite of Spring as "the 20th century's Ninth Symphony." Austin: Music in the 20th Century p. 252. <br /> <br /> "Le sacre du printemps was to remain the most notoriously violent score of a time when huge noisy orchestras and harsh dissonance were more or less commonplace appurtenances of the new music. The primitive imagery of Russian symbolism of the kind exploited by Roerich had always carried a certain revolutionary tone a note of challenge to ossified social structures. But behind all the racket behind the wilfully discordant harmonies and convulsive metric irregularities lay a genuinely innovatory kind of musical thinking whose point would not become clear until Stravinsky himself began to deconstruct it in subsequent works." Stephen Walsh in Grove Music Online. Édition Russe de Musique [PN R.M.V. 196] unknown
