Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Louri??? explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Louri???. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence, Louri??? was swept away by the Revolution; he surfaced as a Communist commissar of music before landing in Europe and America, where his career foundered. Making his way by serving others, he became Stravinsky's right-hand man, Serge Koussevitsky's ...
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Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Louri??? explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Louri???. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence, Louri??? was swept away by the Revolution; he surfaced as a Communist commissar of music before landing in Europe and America, where his career foundered. Making his way by serving others, he became Stravinsky's right-hand man, Serge Koussevitsky's ghostwriter, and philosopher Jacques Maritain's muse. Louri??? left his mark on the poems of Anna Akhmatova, on the neoclassical aesthetics of Stravinsky, on Eurasianism, and on Maritain's NeoThomist musings about music.
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