Stravinsky

• “Indeed, he thinks the composer, along with Stravinsky, is the biggest enduring influence on 21st-century composers.”

  The Guardian: Esa-Pekka Salonen: 'Start again. That was disgusting'

• “Salonen's admiration for Stravinsky is well established by now, and his performances of Le Sacre du Printemps with the L.A. Phil will always remain in my mind.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “If Pulcinella was the epiphany, then Apollon musagète must surely be the apogee of what became known as Stravinsky's 'neoclassicism'.”

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• “The evening, titled "Stravinsky Outside Russia," is also intended to illustrate the composer's mutli-national life.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Orchestra Adds Narrator for Show

• “HOFFMAN: Well, I think the Stravinsky is a nice example.”

  NPR: Slimming Down the Classics

• “To paraphrase Stravinsky on hearing Bernstein conduct The Rite of SpringI think...wow!”

  Do you know this man?

• “After his death his music, previously barely known, became the model for the younger generation and also for older composers, such as Stravinsky and Aaron Copland, who were seeking a second youth.”

  Unreconstructed Modernist

• “Get some more classical works such as Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" reworked with the inclusion of the noises of lawn mowers and leaf blowers.”

  Comments for HumidCity

• “As the projector spooled to life, a huge wave of synthesized strings, played by Miller, declared the arrival of the overture: a bombastic, polytonal statement that stylistically evoked the works of Russian composers such as Stravinsky and Shostakovich.”

  TheDartmouth.com | America's Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799.

• “For established composers such as Stravinsky, the great challenge of the 1950s was deciding how to respond to the new strain of modernism infecting the musical world.”

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