'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are
unique in musical history.' "Sunday Times"
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""The contents of the celebrated series of Conversations, dating
from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, were taken down
by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer. Craft lived
for twenty-one years with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home,
or nearby, and for two more years in a next-door hotel room in New
York. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert
tours, and from the mid-1950s to the end of Stravinsky's life
co-conducted his concerts.
Memories and Commentaries, the second of the series, is a
brilliant portrait gallery in which Stravinsky, prompted by Craft,
sets down with characteristic wit and insight his memories of such
famous writers and musicians as Romain Rolland, Reynaldo Hahn, Lord
Berners and Manuel de Falla. There are long sections devoted to
Diaghilev, to Russian composers, to Stravinsky's childhood and
youth in Russia, and detailed accounts of his collaboration with
Benois ("The Nightingale"), Gide "(Persephone") and Auden ("The
Rake's Progress").
The Conversations books are the only published writings
attributed to Stravinsky that are actually by him, in the sense of
fidelity to the substance of his thoughts, making them required
reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.
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