How Stravinsky Tells a Story
2,874Stravinsky’s ballet ‘Petrushka’ almost never came into existence. In 1911, Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballet Russe, visited Stravinsky to check on the progress of their latest commission, ‘The Rite of Spring’, but Stravinsky hadn’t written a single note of the piece. Instead, he had been working on an orchestral piece about a puppet who comes to life. When Diaghilev heard what Stravinsky had written, he put aside plans for ‘The Rite’ and instead convinced Stravinsky to turn this orchestral piece into a ballet of its own. ‘Petrushka’ was the result. Stravinsky’s score for ‘Petrushka’ contains some of the most enduringly popular music he ever wrote, and shows Stravinsky’s almost unparalleled ability to tell a story.
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FURTHER LISTENING
Stravinsky: Firebird - Petrushka (Sir Simon Rattle , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra): https://open.spotify.com/album/6hxqe3kcSouzyIH8yJ6pic?si=2B62M1ZOQL2Jo5ug-6R2tQ
FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
Petrushka: An Authoritative Score of the Original Version, Backgrounds, Analysis, Essays, Views and Comments (Norton Critical Editions): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0393097706/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Stravinsky and the Octatonic - A Reconsideration: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/files/publications/stravinsky.pdf
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