Stravinsky

Ragtime was as sophisticated as Stravinsky, Van Vechten asserted, blues singer Clara Smith as sublime an artist as any opera diva.

But then I found out that Mann drew on firsthand advice from his buddies Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.

Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.

It was more like a Balanchine-Stravinsky pas de deux, full of tension, crashing cymbals and shifting rhythms.

This seems to me a most interesting recollection, in view of the "cubist" music of Stravinsky and Co. of to-day.

When we played the Stravinsky pieces here, for instance, his Pétrouschka and Firebird had not yet been heard.

Probably Stravinsky and his musical fireworks will be called a Futurist, whatever that portentous title may mean.

By this road we lead on to Stravinsky, Casella, and Malipiero.

So, if it is inexact to say that Stravinsky writes Jazz, it is true to say that his genius has been nourished by it.