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Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92

• jdnier 11y ago
  There's another well-written obituary that's also worth reading here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11997024/Robert-Craft-Stravinsky-expert-obituary.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11997024/Robert-C...
  • lrc 11y ago
    True (oddly, the article uses the word "regurgitate" twice and left me wondering "whose nipples?")
    • NDizzle 11y ago
      Also they were talking about rotary phones!
• rquantz 11y ago
  I took a theory class in the music of Stravinsky in grad school, and we used Craft's books at several points. It's interesting to think of the life of a person as having historical significance in large part because they acted as a window into some other person. I suppose it's actually rather common, and there are other examples even in the world of classical music (Schindler comes to mind for Beethoven).