Down a path of wonder : [memoirs of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and other cultural figures] / Robert Craft
Publication details: [Hong Kong] : Naxos Books, 2006Description: 562 s. : illISBN:- 1-84379-217-6
- 978-1-84379-217-8
- 780.92 22 (machine generated)
- Ijz Craft, Robert
Item type | Current library | Call number | Materials specified | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B24.958 | 1 | Available | 26201806665 |
Part 1 : Music: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern -- Part 2 : Literature: Mallarmé, Joyce, Elliot, Auden -- Part 3 : Travel diaries 2001-2004: Cambodia, Italian vignettes, Seville
Craft's musical observations are pertinent and witty, and it is music that underpins this collection of memoirs. However, his descriptions of Stravinsky's collaborator-friends, such as George Balanchine, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and other makers the twentieth century, also provide a fascinating contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of our era