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Originally Posted by Kochev  Stravinsky Arrested in Boston!
This mug shot of Igor Stravinsky was taken by the Boston police. It seems Stravinsky was arrested for "tampering with public property." In 1940 the police arrived at Symphony Hall and confiscated the instrument parts to Stravinsky's orchestration of "The Star Spangled Banner." He was charged with changing the traditional harmonies. This story can be found with the Koch release, Histoire de Soldat, Premieres & Rarities. On it is, another national anthem orchestrated by Stravinsky, La Marseillaise. |
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Он всего лишь создал аранжировку Национального гимна.
К сожалению, в Америке 1940-х годов это было запрещено.
Композитора задержали - так появилась эта изумительная фотография.
Он смог отделаться 100 баксами штрафа.
"The Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) who had immigrated to the United States made his instrumentation of The Star-Spangled Banner in summer 1941, partly on the instigation of one of his students and partly because of a war-time regulation requiring the anthem be played at the start of all concerts. He dedicated the manuscript to Mrs. Roosevelt so that it could be auctioned for the war fund, but it was returned to him with an apology, the composer later commenting that "...my major seventh cord in the second strain of the piece, the part patriotic ladies like best, must have embarrassed some high of-ficial". His orchestration of the piece produced similar bafflement when it was first performed - in 1944 with Stravinsky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Although he was standing with his back to the orchestra so he could conduct the singing in the hall, the audience - caught out by the unusual harmonies - remained stonily silent throughout the performance. The following day, before the next concert, an officer of the law entered Stravinskyïs dressing room and informed him of a Massachusetts law forbidding any "tampering" with national property. He said policemen had already been instructed to remove his arrangement from the music stands. Stravinsky, however, remained adamant about the quality of his instrumentation: "...it makes the linear and harmonic best of the material, and is certainly superior to any other version I have heard".
On May 15, 2002 The National Symphony Orchestra Washington performed this arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner at a concert dedicated in memory of the victims of 11 September 2001 at the 57th Prague Spring International Music Festival. The concert was under the patronage of the Embassy of the United States of America and U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Craig R. Stapleton, was present. "
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04-07-2008, 03:25 PM
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