Great Masters: Stravinsky-His Life and Music

Award-winning Professor Robert Greenberg's Great Masters: Stravinsky—His Life and Music depicts the career of Igor Stravinsky as a dizzying, enthralling progression that creates a virtual artistic history of the West from the 1890s to the late 1960s. Discover this master of musical creativity to be a one-man compendium of people, places, compositional styles, and techniques. Among other things, these lectures on Stravinsky will give you a sense of the kaleidoscopic changes in musical expression that took place during much of the 20th century.

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