#4: Toute Suite: Stravinsky, from the Ballet Theater to the Concert Hall
Series: Stravinsky@125
From: Jackson Braider
Length: 00:13:53
Igor Stravinsky wasn't the first composer to revise works created for one medium to make them work in another. All in all, there were some three dozen compositions he revisited over the span of 40 years. Still, his fame rides mainly on the suites pulled from his early ballets with the Ballets Russes in Paris. In this edition of Stravinsky at 1-2-5, Jackson Braider explores two of those suites -- Petrushka {peh-TROOSH-kah} and the 1945 Firebird -- and the curious facts underlying their revision.
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Igor Stravinsky wasn't the first composer to revise works created for one medium to make them work in another. All in all, there were some three dozen compositions he revisited over the span of 40 years. Still, his fame rides mainly on the suites pulled from his early ballets with the Ballets Russes in Paris. In this edition of Stravinsky at 1-2-5, Jackson Braider explores two of those suites -- Petrushka {peh-TROOSH-kah} and the 1945 Firebird -- and the curious facts underlying their revision.
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Toute Suite: Stravinsky, from the theater to the concert hall
Suite: The handy dandy Oxford American Dictionary defines the word as 1. A set of rooms or furniture; 2. A set of attendants, a retinue. 3. a set of musical pieces or extracts.
The origins of the musical suite can be traced back to the 17th and 18th centuries, when such works were first conceived of as a succession of pieces unified by key or style. Bach's English and French Suites, for instance, explore the musical sensibilities of the two countries.
Two hundred years later, Igor Stravinsky was discovering the musical suite for himself as the Oxford American Dictionary defines it -- a set of musical extracts, a redaction of a large work into a compelling series of highlights that make musical sense all on their own.
Of particular interest here are two suites drawn from Stravinsky's early days wit...
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Host intro:Igor Stravinsky wasn't the first composer to revise works created for one medium to make them work in another. All in all, there were some three dozen compositions he revisited over the span of 40 years. Still, his fame rides mainly on the suites pulled from his early ballets with the Ballets Russes in Paris. In this edition of Stravinsky at 1-2-5, Jackson Braider explores two of those suites -- Petrushka {peh-TROOSH-kah} and the 1945 Firebird -- and the curious facts underlying their revision.
00:00 Suite: The handy dandy Oxford American Dictionary ....
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet: Petrushka | Igor Stravinsky | Ballets, Vol. 1. | Sony/BMG | 1991 | 03:00 |
| Ballet: Firebird | Igor Stravinsky | Ballets, Vol. 1. | Sony/BMG | 1991 | 03:00 |
| Suite: Petrushka | Igor Stravinsky | Ballet Suites. | Sony/BMG | 1991 | 03:00 |
| Suite: Firebird, 1945 version | Igor Stravinsky | Ballet Suites. | Sony/BMG | 1991 | 03:00 |
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