Stravinsky in the Americas: Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)

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 Stravinsk...