This Not That

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

listening to breakfast abed one morning this week i realised i was in pain .... it was Stravinsky on the piano - Petrushka - pounding dullness ... i actually said to myself for chrissake play some Oscar instead at least he SWINGS! [i would very rarely choose Oscar]

[gradus]

Wow, Oscar on top form. Thanks for the posting. At least as good a choice as Petrushka for R3 in the morning.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

cheers gradus! er a better choice in my view, to this jazbos lobes Stravinsky is a square ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

to this jazbos lobes Stravinsky is a square ...

Lobe dysfunction! Igor's the man: a dodecahedron at the very least!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

nah not when it comes to the beat the man is a square ......

[eighthobstruction]

Old Igor don't whip it out like Oscar....[nor could he whip it out so quick off the top of his head....]....

Good name for a novel 'Igor and Osca'....Oscar fights against Rascism in the South....Igor against Stalinism....

The story so far....

[cloughie]

Old Igor don't whip it out like Oscar....[nor could he whip it out so quick off the top of his head....]....

Good name for a novel 'Igor and Osca'....Oscar fights against Rascism in the South....Igor against Stalinism....

The story so far....

Shame there was never a Oscar plays Igor album.

[elmo]

The Rite of swing - for Peterson
The Firebird - Parker meets Strav

[eighthobstruction]

[cloughie]

The Rite of swing - for Peterson
The Firebird - Parker meets Strav

Other Igor fusion possibilities:

Basie de la fee
Pee Wee Rossignol
Pulcinella Fitzgerald

[Serial_Apologist]

Other Igor fusion possibilities:

Basie de la fee
Pee Wee Rossignol
Pulcinella Fitzgerald

Russell Square

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Thornton Heath

[cloughie]

Thornton Heath

Ted

[eighthobstruction]

Mornington Crescent ??....

[Serial_Apologist]

Old Igor don't whip it out like Oscar....[nor could he whip it out so quick off the top of his head....]....

There's a story somewhere of a visit to Stravinsky's pad in the early 1920s, describing the composer's elongated studio, with a table grand at one end and an upright the other. Stravinsky's method of composition was on score paper pasted around the walls; he would commence to the right hand side of the door, and continue writing as fast as his hand could translate thoughts to paper, occasionally interrupting to rush to one or other of the two pianos to check an idea. Asked why, IS is said to have replied that such a method allowed for greater musical continuity, in contradistinction with certain other composers' music.

From this story I have always assumed Stravinsky was implicating alleged "discontinuities" in the music of the Schoenberg school, particularly Webern, attributing them to the fact of having to put one sheet of manuscript to one side, when completed, before going on to pick up the next.