Robert Craft (left) with Igor Stravinsky in 1966. (© Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories by Robert Craft, Naxos Books, 360 pages, $34.98. There has been no more important centennial in the cultural world than the 100th anniversary on May 29 of what is, ...

Mark Swed is a music critic for The Times. In 1949, a 26-year-old New York conductor boarded a train for Los Angeles to take a job as musical assistant to Igor Stravinsky. Robert Craft soon became ...

THE letter was businesslike, and Robert Craft never intended it to work out as it did when he sent it, in 1947, to Igor Stravinsky in Los Angeles. He was already “ensorcelated” by his music, ever ...

Frankfurt, West Germany, May 1955: With a tip of the hat, composer Igor Stravinsky boards a plane for the trip back to the U.S. at the end of his European tour. With him are his wife, Vera, and ...

Robert Lawson Craft passed away on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Alva Craft and his son, Alexander Craft. He was a renowned author, esteemed orchestra conductor, protege of ...

Starting today, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will begin a five day performance run one of the all time great “lost works” of music – Igor Stravinsky’s “Chant Funebre” (Funeral Song). The piece ...

World-renowned composer who was born in St. Petersburg scventy-five years ago. IGOR STRAVINSKY studied composition under Rimsky-korsakov and made his reputation with the Firebird ballet produced by ...