Robert Craft (1923-2015)

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Maestro267

November 18, 2015, 03:38:06 AM
Robert Craft, American conductor best known for his work with Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School, has passed away at the age of 92.

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/robert-craft-stravinsky-expert-conductor-and-author-has-died?utm_content=buffer4e68c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

RIP

Christo

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November 18, 2015, 07:37:57 AM
Witness of another age.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Cato

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November 19, 2015, 12:25:07 PM
Craft conducted a great performance of Schoenberg's Erwartung with Helga Pilarczyk as the singer.  It was on Columbia Records.

And was part of the Complete Arnold Schoenberg: oh, the good old days!

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)
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