Dec 11, 2018
December 1947: Igor Stravinsky at Work on ‘The Rake’s Progress’
December 1947: Igor Stravinsky at Work on ‘The Rake’s Progress’
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project.
In late November, composer Igor Stravinsky had a guest at his home in the Hollywood Hills (The Times is elusive as to its exact location). His visitor was the English poet W.H. Auden and the men began discussing a musical work based on some engravings by William Hogarth—“The Rake’s Progress.”
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