Stravinsky
Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony O...
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"This rather brief 1-hour documentary (in B&W) from 1965 shows Stravinsky conducting a recording of his "Symphony of Psalms" in Canada. We then follow him as he travels to Hamburg by boat. There are interviews with his second wife Vera, Bob Craft, Nicolas Nabokov, Stravinsky...and a brief clip of Balanchine rehearsing Movements for piano and orchestra (where one can recognize a very young Suzanne Farrell, Karin von Aroldingen, Jacques d'Amboise) Unfortunately, there's no interview with Mr. B. I enjoyed this documentary immensely. It's a thrill to see the great Str..."
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Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony O...