Tag: Villa-Lobos

  • PROGRAM NOTES: YO-YO MA & KATHRYN STOTT

    PROGRAM NOTES: YO-YO MA & KATHRYN STOTT

    Igor Stravinsky Suite Italienne At the end of the Great War Igor Stravinsky underwent a radical shift in his compositional techniques and aesthetic aims. Gone were the gargantuan orchestras that had performed the lush, colorful scores of his pre-War ballets Firebird and Petrushka. Gone, as well, the dense chord structures and revolutionary rhythmic tumult that…