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The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky. Edited by Jonathan Cross. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv, 327 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper). The volume at hand is the first in the series of Cambridge Companions to discuss a Russian composer. Fifteen contributors have provided fourteen essays, a chronology of the composer's life, and a list of works. The contributors' essays are grouped in three subject areas: origins and contexts, the works, and reception. As is generally the case with such collections, not all essays are equally well-written, equally memorable, or equally useful to all readers, though I have no doubt that each essay will find its constituency. , Rosamund. Bartlett, Christopher Butler, and Arnold Whittall all seek to locate Stravinsky in a certain world. For Bartlett it is the world of Imperial Russia; she pro- vides a succinct overview o f Stravinsky's early years in St. Petersburg and the milieu in which he grew up, touching upon his childhood as the son of the leading bass at the Imperial Opera, his composition lessons with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his engage- ment in the cultural life of the Silver Age, his affiliation with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets-Russes, and his
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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