Stravinsky in a Conversation. This totally made my day. Stravinsky drinking Scotch with Nicolas Nabokov, talking about paparazzi, consulting his Russian-English dictionary (“diligent”), getting the camera crew to drink up, learning bad news about Cocteau. (via)
“There’s a reason so many of Newman’s portraits have become the iconic images of artists such as Stravinsky and Picasso. Entering their space, Newman managed to capture something of these artists’ inner lives.”
Read the Austin American-Statesman’s review of “Arnold Newman: Masterclass.”
Caption: Arnold Newman, Igor Stravinsky, 1945. Contact sheet of four negatives with Newman’s marks and cropping lines.
Igor Stravinsky bowing down to kiss his wife, Vera de Bosset. Hollywood, 1947. Photo by Loomis Dean for Life Magazine. I should really have more stuff with a Stravinsky tag.
[The Große Fuge is] an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever.
-Igor Stravinsky
Nice visualization, too.
Mark Larson 