CRAFT, Robert [Charles Strouse].
Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.
New York: St. Martin's Press , 1993.
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First Edition of Robert Craft's Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life; From the Collection of Broadway Composer Charles Strouse
First American edition of Robert Craft's intimate memoir of Igor Stravinsky. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the collection of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family ("Those Were the Days"). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever, with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation – from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later – and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. With his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper and ownership sticker to the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and splitting to the hinges. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee.
In Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life (1992), the conductor and writer Robert Craft (1923-2015) draws on his unparalleled intimacy with Igor Stravinsky to offer a mosaic of reminiscence, portraiture, and critical reflection on the composer. From 1948 until Stravinsky's death in 1971, Craft lived and worked at the composer's side as his assistant, conductor, and closest musical confidant, an association that produced the celebrated series of published conversations between the two men and a shelf of books that have shaped posterity's understanding of Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), the Russian-born composer of The Firebird, Petrushka, and the epoch-making The Rite of Spring, whose 1913 Paris premiere provoked one of the most famous riots in the history of music, was among the most influential figures in twentieth-century art, restlessly reinventing his style from primitivism through neoclassicism to serialism across a career of more than six decades. Here Craft revisits the private man behind the public monument, recalling encounters with figures from Dylan Thomas to W. H. Auden and illuminating the daily life, wit, and working habits of the composer he knew better than almost anyone outside the family.
Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.
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