Ode (Stravinsky)
Ode: Elegiacal Chant in Three Parts (in memory of Natalie Koussevitzky) is an orchestral work from 1943 composed by Igor Stravinsky. Prior to its completion, the score's working title had been Triads.[1]
History
In February 1943, upon the personal urging of
Stravinsky sent the finished Ode to Koussevitzky on July 9. He described the music's first part as "a praise to the departed," and its central section as a "concert champêtre, t[hat] i[s], music at the heart of nature, the principle which [your wife] defended with such passion and which you realized so brilliantly in Tanglewood." Of the closing "Epitaph" the composer said that it was a "headstone inscription ... which will conclude my song in memory of the departed." Koussevitzky replied on July 21 that he was "deeply touched and grateful" for the music.[6]
Two weeks before the score's debut, Stravinsky assured Koussevitzky that the score and parts he had sent for the Ode were "carefully corrected" by him.
Ballet
Ode was choreographed as a ballet by
Notes
- ISBN 0-375-40752-9.
- ^ Walsh 2006, p. 144
- ISBN 9780520299924.
- ^ Walsh 2006, p. 147
- ^ Walsh 2006, p. 150
- JSTOR 3600975.
- ^ Yuzefovich & Kostalevsky 2002, p. 811
- ^ Walsh 2006, p. 149
- ^ Walsh 2006, p. 149
- ^ Slim 2019, p. 249
- ^ Yuzefovich & Kostalevsky 2002, p. 814
- ^ Slim 2019, p. 250
- ^ "Dance: Balanchine and Robbins Take to the Stage" by Clive Barnes, The New York Times, June 24, 1972