{"product_id":"2026200015744-secondhand-stravinsky-in-conversation-with-robert-craft","title":"Stravinsky In Conversation With Robert Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artistic dialogues in the twentieth century rival the candour and intellectual richness of the exchanges between Igor Stravinsky and his close confidant Robert Craft. Stravinsky in Conversation with Robert Craft presents a series of probing interviews in which one of classical music's most revolutionary figures speaks with disarming frankness about his life, his compositional process, and his relationships with the towering figures of modernism — from Diaghilev and Picasso to Schoenberg and T.S. Eliot. The result is an intimate, often witty, and consistently illuminating portrait of a genius at work, rendered in a conversational style that makes even the most complex musical ideas accessible.\n\nBeyond its biographical richness, the book stands as a vital document of twentieth-century cultural history, capturing a mind that permanently reshaped the landscape of Western music. Craft's sharp editorial instincts draw out Stravinsky's opinions on aesthetics, religion, and the nature of creativity with a depth rarely achieved in conventional memoir. The author's voice — acerbic, erudite, and deeply personal — resonates on every page, leaving the reader to wonder what further revelations might have remained unspoken.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203252723931,"sku":"2026200015744-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/debafa16-2323-4f62-b3c0-c7e0cf23c8e4.png?v=1788146459","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015744-secondhand-stravinsky-in-conversation-with-robert-craft","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}