Stravinsky and His World by Levitz Tamara

Author:Levitz, Tamara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

The Future Direction of Music

Asked afterward about the future direction of music, he tells us: “It is very difficult to judge things that are constantly happening in front of our eyes and developing around us; we must have the necessary perspective of time in order to reach consequent conclusions and be able to judge. In my case, for example, I do what was done before, but in another way, and that is what makes it novel and contemporary. The problems may always be the same; the problem of creation, above all, is simply a question of finding the relationships that interest or suit each individual creator. It has been said that in the works I produce, I proceed in leaps, that my audience is disoriented because it cannot find what it expected in any one of them. The truth is nothing like that; I enlarge the borders of a starting point that I consider my point of departure, and the rotational movement produced around it is perfectly logical within the curve of its line. As exactly logical, I could say, as the movement of a wheel around its axis. The difference is that my ‘tempo’ is not the ‘tempo’ of those who use time to sleep through life… The movement of my work is fast. Many of my admirers are still stuck in Petrushka, they remain in the same place; whereas I enlarge my radius of action, and they don’t follow me. Hence the frequent misunderstandings, which can generally be attributed to incomprehension or lack of preparation to fathom the meaning of my new ideas.”

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