Robert Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.
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‘Stravinsky: the Second Exile’
September 21, 2006
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The Perils of Mrs. Eliot
May 23, 2002
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius
by Carole Seymour-Jones
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Only Collect
May 6, 1999
The Prince’s Tale and Other Uncollected Writings
by E.M. Forster, edited by P.N. Furbank
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Another Scipio
February 18, 1999
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Stravinsky & Balanchine
October 8, 1998
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Sunday Afternoon Live
May 28, 1998
New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923-1987 book, 21 conductors, 18 soloists. ten compact discs of digitally remastered recordings, with 144-page
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On the ‘Virge’
September 25, 1997
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
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Nights at the Opera
October 31, 1996
Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times by Peter Heyworth
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His Ewe Lamb
June 20, 1996
Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Thekla Clark, Introduction by James Fenton
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Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest
November 2, 1995
Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 15251855
by Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque
by H. C. Robbins Landon
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Words for Music Perhaps
November 3, 1994
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Libretti and other Dramatic Writings (19391973) by W.H. Auden, by Chester Kallman, edited by Edward Mendelson
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Furtwängler & Toscanini
January 13, 1994
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Love in a Cold Climate
November 18, 1993
‘To My Best Friend’: Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (18761878) translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden, by Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden
Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (18851893) by David Brown
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The Furtwängler Enigma
October 7, 1993
The Devil’s Music Master: The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler by Sam H. Shirakawa
Trial of Strength: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Third Reich by Fred K. Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
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‘Love in a Cold Climate’
December 17, 1992
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Love in a Cold Climate
November 19, 1992
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson edited by Nigel Nicolson
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Great Dane
October 22, 1992
Niels Lyhne
by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson
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What’s a Girl to Do?
July 16, 1992
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Lagoon Tunes
April 9, 1992
Five Centuries of Music in Venice by H.C. Robbins Landon, by John Julius Norwich
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Bali H’ai
October 24, 1991
Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja
A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
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A Little Mozart Tour
August 15, 1991
Mozart: ‘Prodigy of Nature’ an exhibition at The Pierpont Morgan Library May 8August 4, 1991
Zaubertöne, Mozart in Wien 17811791 1990September 15, 1991 an exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna December 6,
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Uncle Whiz
January 17, 1991
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden
by Alan Ansen, edited by Nicholas Jenkins, Introduction by Richard Howard
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel by Harold Norse
W.H. Auden: ‘The Map of All My Youth,’ Early Works, Friends and Influences Auden Studies, Volume I edited by Katherine Bucknell, edited by Nicholas Jenkins
Auden’s Apologies For Poetry by Lucy McDiarmid
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The Comedian Of Horror
September 27, 1990
Gathering Evidence: A Memoir
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Wittgenstein’s Nephew: A Friendship
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Histrionics: Three Plays by Thomas Bernhard. (A Party for Boris; Ritter, Dene, Voss; Histrionics), translated by Peter Jansen, by Kenneth Northcutt
The President and Eve of Retirement by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Gitta Honegger
The Lime Works
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins
Gargoyles
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Correction
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins
Concrete
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Woodcutters
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McClintock
Old Masters: A Comedy
by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Ewald Osers
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Making Hay with Huxley
May 31, 1990
Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway
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The Top of the World
May 17, 1990
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Pipe Dreams
November 23, 1989
An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes From the Non-Christian World by Paul Bowles
A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
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‘Jews and Geniuses’: An Exchange
June 15, 1989
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Einstein & the Jews
May 18, 1989
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The Stravinsky Beat
April 27, 1989
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An Affair of the Heart
April 13, 1989
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Jews and Geniuses
February 16, 1989
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The Motives of T.S. Eliot
December 22, 1988
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‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: An Exchange
August 18, 1988
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Pulling No Punches
June 16, 1988
Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson edited by Tim Page, edited by Vanessa Weeks Page
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Balanchine’s Steps
March 31, 1988
George Balanchine: Ballet Master by Richard Buckle, in collaboration with John Taras
Balletmaster: A Dancer’s View of George Balanchine by Moira Shearer
Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland, by Greg Lawrence
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The Emperor of China
November 5, 1987
The BergSchoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters edited by Juliane Brand, edited by Christopher Hailey, edited by Donald Harris
Schoenberg and His Circle: A Viennese Portrait by Joan Allen Smith
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Dickinson & Death
July 16, 1987
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Amorous in Amherst
April 23, 1987
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The Maestro on the Market
April 9, 1987
Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music by Joseph Horowitz
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From a West-East Diary
December 4, 1986
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Lives of the Poets
April 24, 1986
The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas edited by Paul Ferris
Journals 19391983 by Stephen Spender, edited by John Goldsmith
Night and Day edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hawtree, preface by Graham Greene
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A New Year Roundup
February 13, 1986
Vidal in Venice by Gore Vidal, edited by George Armstrong, photographs by Tore Gill
Jean Cocteau and the French Scene edited and with a preface by Arthur King Peters
T.S. Eliot An anniversary issue of The Southern Review
Tchaikovsky’s Ballets by Roland John Wiley
Arnold SchoenbergWassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents edited by Jelena Hahl-Koch, translated by John C. Crawford
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Balanchine Variations
November 7, 1985
Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonia W. Bouis
Balanchine: A Biography by Bernard Taper
“But First a School”: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet by Jennifer Dunning
Portrait of Mr. B.: Photographs of George Balanchine with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein
Balanchine’s ‘Mozartiana’: The Making of a Masterpiece by Robert Maiorano, by Valerie Brooks
Dancing for Balanchine by Merrill Ashley, with the assistance of Larry Kaplan, foreword by Clement Crisp
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Mozartiana
May 30, 1985
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B-flat Movie
April 11, 1985
Amadeus a film written by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman
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A Christmas Roundup
December 20, 1984
Principles of the Harpsichord by Monsieur de Saint Lambert, translated and edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Postscript to ‘The Name of the Rose’ by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
Egon Schiele, an Exhibition Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro, Venice (August 26November 25)
Egon Schiele by Serge Sabarsky
Lulu: The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II by George Perle
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Kallman in Athens
October 25, 1984
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Lives of the Poets
September 27, 1984
Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan
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Required Reading
June 28, 1984
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 19551982
by Philip Larkin
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Death in the Family
March 15, 1984
A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated with an introduction by Paul Auster
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Compositions
December 22, 1983
Auden: An American Friendship by Charles H. Miller
This Man and Music
by Anthony Burgess
Glenn Gould: Variations by Himself and His Friends, edited with an introduction by John McGreevy
Balthus: Drawings and Watercolors by Giovanni Carandente
The Letters of William Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff
edited and with an introduction by Loren R. Rothchild
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Blue Suede Views
July 21, 1983
All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century by John Rockwell
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V.
March 17, 1983
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Puppy Love
December 2, 1982
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Keeping Up with Mr. B
August 12, 1982
Going to the Dance by Arlene Croce
Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal
by Toni Bentley
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My Life with Stravinsky
June 10, 1982
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La Grande Mademoiselle
May 27, 1982
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music
by Léonie Rosenstiel
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A Musical Offering
February 4, 1982
A Virgil Thomson Reader
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The ‘Shadow’ and the Substance
September 24, 1981
Die Frau ohne Schatten by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss: An Analysis of Text, Music, and Their Relationship by Sherrill Hahn Pantle. German Studies in America, No. 29, edited by Heinrich Meyer
Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) English version of the libretto by Eric Crozier
Richard Strauss: The Staging of His Operas and Ballets by Rudolf Hartmann
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Chamberlain and the Jews
June 25, 1981
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What ‘R.’ Wrought
April 16, 1981
The Diary of Richard Wagner The Brown Book: 1865-1882 presented and annotated by Joachim Bergfeld, translated by George Bird
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries Vol. II: 1878-1883 additional notes by edited and annotated by Martin Gregor-Dellin, by Dietrich Mack, translated, with an introduction, postscript, and Geoffrey Skelton
Cosima Wagner by George R. Marek
In Search of Wagner
by Theodore Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone
The Dream of Self-Destruction: Wagner’s “Ring” and the Modern World by L.J. Rather
Bayreuth: The Early Years compiled, edited, and introduced by Robert Hartford
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The New Liszt
February 5, 1981
The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff (1871-1886) Harvard University Press translated by William R. Tyler, introduction and notes by Edward N. Waters
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Schoenberg and Dika
December 18, 1980
Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections (1938-1976) by Dika Newlin
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An ‘Unheard of Intensity’
November 20, 1980
The Operas of Alban Berg Vol. I: Wozzeck by George Perle
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Notes from the Composer
January 24, 1980
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A Composer’s Memoir edited by David H. Appel, translated by Guy Daniels
O I.F. Stravinskom y ego Blizkikh by Kseniya Iur'evna Stravinskaya
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Catherine and Igor Stravinsky
November 22, 1979
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From the Vedas to Wagner: Short Reviews
March 22, 1979
Samavedic Chant by Wayne Howard
Wagner’s “Rienzi”: A Reappraisal Based on a Study of Sketches and Drafts by John Deathridge
Bruckner Box 327, Totowa, New Jersey 07511) by Derek Watson
The Harmonic Organization of “The Rite of Spring” by Allen Forte
Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Founder of French Opera by R.H.F. Scott
Vivaldi by Michael Talbot
Tchaikovsky by John Warrack
Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 by David Brown
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To Criticize the Critic
November 9, 1978
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Sour Notes
September 28, 1978
A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths
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Concorde Diary
August 17, 1978
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Light on Lasso
May 4, 1978
Orlando di Lasso: Sämliche Werke, Neue Reihe edited by Wolfgang Boetticher
Orlando di Lasso Volume I: Sein Leben Volume II: Briefe by Horst Leuchtmann
Music of Orlando di Lasso: I: Missa Bell Amfitrit Altera; Penitential Psalm VII, II: Four Motets; Penitential Psalm V Choir of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, conducted by Simon Preston
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Evviva Vivaldi! A Consumer’s Report for the Tercentenary
March 23, 1978
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The Vivaldi Numbers Game
March 23, 1978
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Too Little Waugh
March 9, 1978
Evelyn Waugh: A Little Order A Selection From His Journalism edited by Dorat Gallagher
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The First Universal Composer
February 23, 1978
Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Festival Conference, Lincoln Center, June 21-25, 1971 edited by E.E. Lowinsky, in collaboration with Bonnie J. Blackburn
Josquin Desprez: Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi and Motets, Chansons, and Instrumental Music capella antiqua (München), conducted by Konrad Ruhland. two records, Philips 6775 005
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Astrology, Hockney, Schubert: A Musical Diary
November 24, 1977
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Webern Mysteries
May 26, 1977
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‘Lulu’ at the Met
May 12, 1977
Lulu by Alban Berg, conducted by James Levine, directed by John Dexter
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Words & Music
April 14, 1977
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Edvard Munch: Self-Portraitist (Notes from a Diary)
January 20, 1977
Edvard Munch by Thomas Messer
Edvard Munch: The Scream by Reinhold Heller
Munch by Jean Selz, translated by Eileen Hennessy
The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch by Werner Timm, translated by Ruth Michaelis-Jena, by Patrick Murray
Edvard Munch catalogue of the Arts Council of Great Britain, with forewords by Sir Kenneth Clark, by Knut Berg
Edvard Munch a film directed by Peter Watkins
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Elegy for ‘Mary Hartman’
December 9, 1976
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‘Winnie’ and ‘Uncle Wolf’
November 11, 1976
Winifred Wagner a film directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
The Wagner Family Albums by Wolf Siegfried Wagner, translated by Susanne Flatauer
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth by Hans Mayer, translated by Jack Zipes
Wagner: A Documentary Study edited by Herbert Barth, by Dietrich Mack, by Egon Voss, translated by P.R.J. Ford, by Mary Whittall
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The Paris Opéra in New York
October 14, 1976
The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, directed by Giorgio Strehler, designed by Ezio Frijerio, conducted by Georg Solti
Otello by Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, staged by Terry Hands, designed by Joseph Svoboda, conducted by Georg Solti
Faust by Gounod, libretto by Barbier and Carré, staged by Jorge Lavelli, designed by Max Bignen, conducted by Michel Plasson
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The Battle of Lenox Hill
September 16, 1976
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Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.)
July 15, 1976
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Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.)
July 15, 1976
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Musical Rx for a Political Season
July 15, 1976
Francesco Landini by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments
Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons I and Chansons II (2 records) by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments. Studio for Early Music, Cologne. EMI Records
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‘Elektra’and Richard Strauss
June 10, 1976
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Eliot’s English Usage
June 10, 1976
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Der Rosenkavalier: ‘Something Mozartian’?
May 13, 1976
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Nijinsky and ‘Le Sacre’
April 15, 1976
Nijinsky Dancing by Lincoln Kirstein
Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911-1929 by Nesta Macdonald
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A ‘Beautiful Coloured, Musical Thing’
March 18, 1976
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‘Figaro’ at the Met: A Marriage on the Rocks
January 22, 1976
Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart, by Lorenzo da Ponte. The Metropolitan Opera, directed by Günther Rennert, designed by Robert O'Hearn, and conducted by Steuart Bedford
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‘A Prodigy of Nature’
December 11, 1975
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Playing with ‘The Magic Flute’
November 27, 1975
The Magic Flute a film directed by Ingmar Bergman. with the Swedish Stage Broadcasting Network Symphony, conducted by Eric Ericson. Sung and spoken in Swedish, with English subtitles
A Preface To “The Magic Flute” by E.M. Batley
“The Magic Flute,” Masonic Opera by Jacques Chailley, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Three Mozart Operas by R.B. Moberly
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Mozart’s ‘Opera of All Operas’
October 30, 1975
The Don Juan Legend by Otto Rank, translated and edited, with an introduction by David G. Winter
Don Giovanni edited by Wolfgang Plath, edited by Wolfgang Rehm
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Salzburg, Mozart and ‘Così’
October 16, 1975
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Two Modern Masters
September 18, 1975
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black
Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen
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The ‘Doctor Faustus’ Case
August 7, 1975
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by a Friend by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of “Doctor Faustus” by Thomas Mann, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”: The Sources and Structure of the Novel
by Gunilla Bergsten, translated by Krishna Winston
Faust as Musician: A Study of Thomas Mann’s Novel “Doctor Faustus” by Patrick Carnegy
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
June 12, 1975
Thomas Mann Symposium by Claude Hill chairman
Katia Mann: Unwritten Memoirs by Katia Mann, edited by Elizabeth von Plessen, by Michael Mann
The Hesse/Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann, 1910-1955 edited by Anni Carlsson, by Volker Michels, translated by Ralph Manheim
Mythology and Humanism: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Karl Kerényi translated by Alexander Gelley
An Exceptional Friendship: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
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Telling Time
May 15, 1975
Time in Greek Tragedy by Jacqueline de Romilly
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The Nostalgic Kingdom of Maurice Ravel
May 1, 1975
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Verdi, Shakespeare, and ‘Falstaff’
April 17, 1975
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Le Sacre and Pierre Monteux: An Unknown Debt
April 3, 1975
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The Giant of Busseto
March 20, 1975
Letters of Giuseppe Verdi selected, translated, and edited by Charles Osborne
Seven Verdi Librettos with English text by William Weaver
The Operas of Verdi: From Oberto to Rigoletto by Julian Budden
Verdi by Joseph Wechsberg
“Verdi, Ghislanzoni and ‘Aida’: The Uses of Convention” by Philip Gossett
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Liszt Learning
March 6, 1975
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Lisztomania
February 6, 1975
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero by Eleanor Perényi
Liszt by Claude Rostand, translated by John Victor
The Man Liszt: A Study of the Tragi-Comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself by Ernest Newman
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Huxley at Home
January 23, 1975
Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford
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THE POET AND ‘THE RAKE’
December 12, 1974
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Parsifal: The Worship of Wagnerism
October 31, 1974
Parsifal Metropolitan Opera production, conducted by Georg Solti, with René Kollo, by Gottlob Frick, by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by Christa Ludwig, by Zoltan Kélémén, by Hans Hotter
Parsifal, Volume 14 (score) edited by Martin Beck, by Egon Voxx
Parsifal, Volume 30 (documents) of the Sämtliche Werke (Complete Works) of Richard Wagner edited by Martin Beck, by Egon Voxx
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Taking the Wagner Cure
October 17, 1974
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Stravinsky in America
August 8, 1974
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In the Mouse Trap
May 16, 1974
The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch
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Stravinsky in the Twenties
May 2, 1974
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Stravinsky
May 2, 1974
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Stravinsky’s Russian Letters
February 21, 1974
I. F. Stravinsky: Essays and Materials compiled by L.S. D'yachkova, edited by B.M. Yarustovsky
F. Stravinsky: Essays, Letters, Memoirs compiled and annotated by L. Kutateladze, edited by A. Gozenpud
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Moses and Chopin
January 24, 1974
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The Stravinsky Archive
December 13, 1973
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Moses and Aaron in Paris
December 13, 1973
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Mahler the Modern
November 29, 1973
Mahler by Henry-Louis de La Grange
Mahler by Kurt Blaukopf
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Chopin’s Progress
October 18, 1973
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Stravinsky: Problems for Biographers
August 9, 1973
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Stravinsky’s Svadebka (Les Noces)
December 14, 1972
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Venice: Paragraphs from a Diary
October 5, 1972
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Stravinsky’s Obituary
July 20, 1972
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The Press: Freedom From, as well as Of
June 29, 1972
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Stravinsky
April 20, 1972
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Fit to Print: The Changing “Times”
April 6, 1972
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Non Credo
October 7, 1971
Mass September 8, 1971 by Leonard Bernstein
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Stravinsky: End of a Chronicle
July 1, 1971
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Pages from a Chronicle
February 25, 1971
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Pay Dirt: Notes on the Sex Explosion
November 6, 1969