Stravinsky in the Americas

H. Colin Slim is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as the first Chair of the music program. He is past president of the American Musicological Society (1989­–1990) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His two-volume A Gift of Madrigals and Motets was awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award. He met Igor Stravinsky in 1952 and again in 1966, events that inspired a lifelong interest in the composer’s personal and professional life. His collection of Stravinsky ephemera, manuscripts, and documents was donated to the University of British Columbia, which published an annotated catalog of the collection in 2002. 

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Richard Taruskin
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925–1940)
1. Tour I (1925)
2. Tour II (1935)
3. Tour III (1936)
4. Tour IV (1937)
5. Tour V (October 1939–Late May 1940)

PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME
LOS ANGELES (1940–1946)
6. Excursions (1940–1941)
7. Excursions (1942)
8. Excursions (1943)
9. Excursions (1944)
10. Excursions (1945–Early 1946)

Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism”
Notes
Bibliography
Index