The way Stravinsky tells the story is that Billy Rose sent him a telegram: "YOUR BALLET A GREAT SUCCESS STOP COULD BE A SMASH SUCCESS IF YOU LET ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT ORCHESTRATE IT STOP BENNETT ORCHESTRATES ALL THE GREAT COMPOSERS EVEN COLE PORTER STOP". Stravinsky telegraphed back "SATISFIED WITH GREAT SUCCESS STOP".
Actually, Wikipedia has it slightly differently from the way I remembered it. I will assume that Wikipedia is correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_de_ballet_(Stravinsky)
A radiant, underrated gem. Stravinsky claimed that the Apotheose was written while he was hearing the news that Paris had been liberated and that one could hear his exaltation in the music. That works for me!
@@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 Boulez recorded all of the Mahler symphonies. Quite strange for a conductor who hates Mahler. And that Boulez made some great recordings of Mahler is also open to opinion.
Brilliant work... Stravinsky again at his best in terms of imagination, coloristic fantasy, subtleties. But everything is approached as if 'from the outside', the musical content is minimal. If compared with, for instance, Jeu de Cartes, equally brilliant but the musical substance there is provided by Rossini (among others). This is a psychological problem, not a musical one.
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The way Stravinsky tells the story is that Billy Rose sent him a telegram: "YOUR BALLET A GREAT SUCCESS STOP COULD BE A SMASH SUCCESS IF YOU LET ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT ORCHESTRATE IT STOP BENNETT ORCHESTRATES ALL THE GREAT COMPOSERS EVEN COLE PORTER STOP". Stravinsky telegraphed back "SATISFIED WITH GREAT SUCCESS STOP".
Actually, Wikipedia has it slightly differently from the way I remembered it. I will assume that Wikipedia is correct.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_de_ballet_(Stravinsky)
A radiant, underrated gem. Stravinsky claimed that the Apotheose was written while he was hearing the news that Paris had been liberated and that one could hear his exaltation in the music. That works for me!
Thank you very much --- a wonder ¡... Stravinsky's genius
I bet this was the kind of work by Stravinsky Boulez loved.
Then why he didn't conduct it
@@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 I was being facetious. Of course Boulez never conducted this work. He hated most of Stravinsky's neoclassical works.
@@muslityeah he also hated Mahler and did some great recordings of his music 🤣
@@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 Boulez recorded all of the Mahler symphonies. Quite strange for a conductor who hates Mahler. And that Boulez made some great recordings of Mahler is also open to opinion.
@@muslit Boulez simply could not conduct works that had a psychological dimension, so with Mahler he merely conductoed the sounds.
Brilliant work... Stravinsky again at his best in terms of imagination, coloristic fantasy, subtleties. But everything is approached as if 'from the outside', the musical content is minimal. If compared with, for instance, Jeu de Cartes, equally brilliant but the musical substance there is provided by Rossini (among others). This is a psychological problem, not a musical one.