[lbo-talk] Questions from before the Global Minotaur...

[// ravi]

On Nov 24, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:50 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> 
>> There is a great and very apropos passage by Stravinsky about the
>> content of art that I would have loved to quote here
> 
> Perhaps this is it?
> 
> "The only twentieth-century composers who became rich did so by
> composing for the ballet. In his early career Stravinsky wrote for
> Diaghilev, in his late years for Balanchine. It was the income he
> received from the repeated performances of these works—as well as from
> the fees for conducting—that allowed him to die a wealthy man."
> 
> Joan Peyser: _Bernstein: A Biography_
> 

Thank you Charles, but I was thinking of a bit written by Stravinsky himself (in Poetics of Music). I will look it up when I return to the land of the whopper :-).

	—ravi