Stravinsky

Ragtime was as sophisticated as Stravinsky, Van Vechten asserted, blues singer Clara Smith as sublime an artist as any opera diva.

The Man Who Made American Modernism

Wendy Smith

February 19, 2014

Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.

Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us

Ann Wroe

May 31, 2012

Stravinsky is sociable and direct; he writes simply for the enjoyment of player and hearer alike.

Stravinsky almost did this in The Nightingale but the break must be more complete.

When we played the Stravinsky pieces here, for instance, his Pétrouschka and Firebird had not yet been heard.

Probably Stravinsky and his musical fireworks will be called a Futurist, whatever that portentous title may mean.

So, if it is inexact to say that Stravinsky writes Jazz, it is true to say that his genius has been nourished by it.