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By Charles M. Joseph. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [xvii, 440 p. ISBN 0-300-08712-8. $40.] Music examples, illustrations, index.
"I will not digress upon the choreography," a prominent musicologist once said of a ballet by Igor Stravinsky at a national convention of the American Musicological Society. Measured against this recent comment, Charles Joseph's latest book, Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention, is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the choreographic contexts of musical compositions.
The core of Joseph's book is a thorough and close analysis of Stravinsky's scores for his "Greek" ballets: Apollon musagete (1928, known as Apollo), Orpheus (1948), and Agon (1957), as well as George Balanchine's Stravinsky Violin Concerto (1972). Layered upon the compositional history and analysis of these scores is a descriptive analysis of each attendant choreography. Additional chapters trace the careers and relationship of Stravinsky and Balanchine, prior to and following their central collaborations.
Because the book's scope is multidisciplinary, it...
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