You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky. . . to Igor Stravinsky!
We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.
I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.
New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.