Bibliograph

A conversation with Igor Stravinsky, NBC News ; Producer and director, Robert D. Graff

Type

Label

A conversation with Igor Stravinsky, NBC News ; Producer and director, Robert D. Graff

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

A conversation with Igor Stravinsky

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

746010060

resource.otherEventInformation

Filmed at the composer's home in Hollywood, Calif., on June 16, 1962

Responsibility statement

NBC News ; Producer and director, Robert D. Graff

Runtime

Series statement

Wisdom series

Summary

This 1957 program opens with the composer at his piano as he creates a "sketch" for a new piece; it then records a detailed conversation between Stravinsky and his protege, Robert Craft. Stravinsky contemplates his youthful studies under Rimsky-Korsakov; the hostility with which The rite of spring was received; his fondness for the Paris milieu tht included Picasso and other members of the modernist avant-garde; his reasons for conducting his own work; and his eulogistic piece written for Dylan Thomas, orginially intended as an opera.--From container

Technique

live action

Classification