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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Orchestral conductor and writer Robert Lawson Craft always considered Kingston home, his niece Kristin Crawford said after his death last week at 92. Crawford said her uncle was born and raised in ...

Includes facsim. of Stravinsky's manuscript of his song The owl and the pussy-cat. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries ...

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 ...