Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works xiv
5. Permissions and Credits xv
6. Stravinsky in Exile 1
7. Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute 21
8. Stravinsky’s Russian Library 61
9. The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Orpheus 79
10. Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourié’s Critique of Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism 105
11. Arthur Lourié’s Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art 127
12. Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection 141
13. Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World 177
14. The Poétique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices 225
15. Stravinsky: The View from Russia 255
16. Stravinsky’s Cold War: Letters About the Composer’s Return to Russia, 1960–1963 273
17. “The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science”: Nabokov, Stravinsky, and the Reader as Listener 319
18. Index 349
19. Notes on Contributors 365
20. Backmatter 368