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LOTHAR KLEIN ON STRAVINSKY

Chorus honors Stravinsky - Austin fondly remembers visit in 1965

Austin American-Statesman, 9/21/1991

excerpt from CBS Stravinsky Austin visit documentary 1965

excerpt from CBS Stravinsky Austin visit documentary 1965

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Much influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Lothar Klein became an authority on Stravinsky's music. His doctoral thesis “Stravinsky and Twelve Tone Composition” was well received by Stravinsky himself, and the two maintained a correspondence. In appreciation of Lothar's work, Stravinsky sent him a manuscript of his “A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer” with the inscription, “To Lothar Klein in exchange for his brilliant analytical essays.” 

View Stravinsky's manuscript for "A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer"

 

Lothar Klein Articles and Essays

about Stravinsky

Essays in Miniature - Stravinsky by Lothar Klein, pt.1 Music Educators Journal Oct/67

Essays in Miniature - Stravinsky by Lothar Klein, pt.2 Music Educators Journal Dec/67


Choral Publications, Standards, Suggestions & Stravinsky by Lothar Klein, Music Educators Journal Jan. 1963


Lothar Klein program notes on Stravinsky, Goethe and Mozart


Stravinsky's Poetics, Dialogue of Music and Life Style by Lothar Klein, Music Educators Journal Sept. 73


 

Igor Stravinsky and Twelve Tone Composition - Three Analytical Essays by Lothar Klein

Stravinsky Symposium concert program, Au
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Stravinsky and Lothar Klein, Austin 1965

In 1965, Lothar organized a Stravinsky Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin, and at Lothar's request, Stravinsky agreed to attend. This event was one of only two such invitations that Stravinsky accepted. David Oppenheim produced a documentary for CBS News on the event.

Lothar Klein, Kent Kennan, Igor Stravins

Lothar Klein, Kent Kennan, Igor Stravinsky, Vera Stravinsky 1965

Lothar Klein, Kent Kennan, Igor Stravins
Stravinsky at Univ. of Texas concert 196
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