Old Friends and New Music

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  • Old Friends and New Music Book Detail

  • Author : Nicolas Nabokov
  • Release Date : 1951
  • Publisher : London : H. Hamilton
  • Genre : Composers
  • Pages : 312
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 76,76 MB
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Old Friends and New Music by Nicolas Nabokov PDF Summary

Book Description: "This musical autobiography is one of those rich finds that give double satisfaction. For the reader there is that very special pleasure that intimate acquaintance with the famous will bring, in this case the great names of contemporary music and ballet. And it gives the publisher satisfaction to bring out a book which in years to come still will be a source of firsthand information about a period of tremendous intellectual excitement and artistic experimentation. It details the legendary brilliance of the days when Picasso, Stravinsky, Karsavina, Cocteau, Balanchine, Prokofiev and others all worked together under the flamboyant direction of the great Diaghilev. The portraits of Stravinsky and Prokofiev are perhaps the most illuminating nontechnical evaluations yet written about these composers, their lives and their music, while the chapter on Koussevitzky is informed with affection and understanding. Nicolas Nabokov's recollections of his childhood in Byelorussia and St. Petersburg are almost from the first memories of music: the "calling songs" of the lumberjacks floating down the Niemen, the shrill gay songs of the peasant women on their way to the hayfields and the lingering melodies they sang when returning, the minstrel songs of old man Troshka. Born into a wealthy Russian family in the early years of the twentieth century, young Nabokov was particularly well-placed to indulge his love for music. Affectionately he describes his first memorable performance of Glinka's A Life for the Tzar at the sumptuous Mariynski Theater and talks of the music making which went on in his family. After the Revolution, the aspiring composer found himself in Paris, then the cultural capital of the Western World. It is at this point in his autobiography that Mr. Nabokov cheerfully yields the center of the stage to the magnificent Diaghilev, the impresario of impresarios who exerted so great an influence on the music, art, and theater of his day. Much has been written about his personality - most of it laudatory, some of it critical - but rarely has the writer been a man of Nabokov's keen observation and careful judgment. His account of the Diaghilev he knew and of the various toilers in the Diaghilev Ballet Company (which produced his own Ode) is fascinating reading. Here is a poignant description of the mad Nijinsky's excursion to see Lifar perform. Nabokov's long friendship with Stravinsky has provided new material for a stimulating study of this great composer and his music, and the author's account of visit with Igor Stravinsky in his California home is both delightful and instructive. Since the early '30s, Nabokov has bene writing and teaching in America. New compositions of his have been commissioned by the Koussevitzky foundation and have been played by the Boston Symphony, the Philharmonic in New York and other leading American orchestras. He has become an American citizen and during the war served as a "cultural" officer attached to the army. His particular concern was the musical life of Berlin after the surrender and his experiences there attempting to cooperate with the Russians close this absorbing memoir."--Dust jacket.

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