Volume 7, Number 10 · December 15, 1966
"Craft-Igor" and the Whole Stravinsky
By Virgil Thomson
Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
by Eric Walter White
University of California, 608 pp., $18.50
Other books by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft:
Themes and Episodes
by Igor Stravinsky, by Robert Craft
Knopf, 352 pp., $6.95
Dialogues and a Diary
by Igor Stravinsky, by Robert Craft
Doubleday, 269 pp., $4.95
Expositions and Developments
by Igor Stravinsky, by Robert Craft
Doubleday, 179 pp., $4.95
Memories and Commentaries
by Igor Stravinsky, by Robert Craft
Doubleday, 167 pp., $3.95
Conversations with Igor Stravinsky
by Igor Stravinsky, by Robert Craft
Doubleday, 162 pp., $4.00
Reviewing Igor Stravinsky's life, works, career, polemical statements, or any books regarding these, one can stipulate that he has been since 1910 a major modern force, that he is now the most admired living composer, and that in the present decade he has revealed himself as a remarkably sharp musical observer. The latter personality let us call Craft-Igor, since it is a double one, in which the voice is the voice of Robert Craft, but the head is of Igor Fyodorovitch.
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