Igor Stravinsky talks about his Variations for Orchestra, then watches George Balanchine making a ballet version of the score. The dancer is Suzanne Farrell:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for September 14, 2011
TT: A week with Satchmo (III)
From the film New Orleans, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday perform “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?”:
TT: Almanac
“I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.”
Igor Stravinsky, interview, Evening Standard, Oct. 29, 1969