TLS, 1941 December 25 : Hollywood, CA, with penciled holograph postscript, to Pierre Monteux, San Francisco.

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TLS, 1941 December 25 : Hollywood, CA, with penciled holograph postscript, to Pierre Monteux, San Francisco.

Stravinsky writes to the conductor concerning a problem with the program of an upcoming concert with the San Francisco Symphony.

1 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7020919

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Monteux, Pierre

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Griffes first met the French-born conductor Pierre Monteux in October 1916. When Monteux was appointed the conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1919, he began to program contemporary music, despite the objections of both the orchestra and the public who were accustomed to a German repertory. Griffes' The pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan was premeiered by Monteux and the orchestra in Boston, November 28, 1919, and repeated the following month at New York City's Carnegie Hall, December 4 and ...