Stravinsky in Rehearsal from 1947

Analog Audio

Event Type

Documentaries

Origin

KPFK

Identifier

C.1964.11.16.c1

Program Length

59 min

Dates

1961-11-16 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

In 1947, William Malloch, possessed by a sense of history, recorded Igor Stravinsky rehearsing his new revision of his “Symphonies of Wind Instruments in Memory of Debussy”. Malloch comments upon and plays this historical recording, which was broadcast by permission of the composer himself. The sound is antique but the picture of what Stravinsky is striving for musically comes through clearly enough. Malloch’s three part series on Stravinsky (of which this is the second part) won runner-up honors in the Eighth Annual Armstrong Awards, the seventh national award his programs have won.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1945-47) / Igor Stravinsky

Subjects

20th century classical
Music rehearsals
Wind ensembles
Symphonies

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Malloch, William F.