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by Robert Craft (Author) "On 5 July 1950, after a cordial exchange of letters,1 I called on Arnold Schoenberg in his Brentwood Park (West Los Angeles) home in connection..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 562 pages
  • Publisher: Naxos Books; Har/Com edition (3 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843792176
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843792178
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 5.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Robert Craft met Stravinsky by invitation in 1948, after nearly four years of letter correspondence with the composer. It was this close association that steered Craft into a stimulating world of leading composers, writers and artists. At virtually the same time that he became a member of the Stravinsky household, Craft, aged twenty-four, discovered the 'path of wonder' created by Arnold Schoenberg. In 1950, the young conductor sought instruction from Schoenberg in the performance of his music, and maintained a friendship with him that became increasingly cordial until the week of the composer's death a year later. 'Remembering Schoenberg', the first chapter of "Down a Path of Wonder", charts with charm the development of this mutual understanding and friendship. Craft's musical observations are pertinent and witty, and it is music that underpins this collection of memoirs. However, his descriptions of Stravinsky's collaborator-friends, such as George Balanchine, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and other Makers of the Twentieth Century, also provide a fascinating contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of our era.

Craft's travel diaries, forming the final part of this book, focus on Italy, Seville and Cambodia; they are similarly insightful, colourful and edifying. "Down a Path of Wonder" is a unique and truly compelling perspective on the post-Second World War artistic world - and beyond.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Medley of Craft Essays, 11 Nov 2009
What a glorious achievement Robert Craft's indefatigable working, informing, explaining and interpreting is for our knowledge of the musical (and literary) modernism of the early 20th century! As a young man he made Stravinsky's acquaintance and became an appreciated assistant to the great composer, and he has published several works, illuminating the composer's genius and musical world. And all this activity is crowned by his recordings of the works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Webern (The Robert Craft Collection for Naxos), all of them extraordinarily superb, increasing and augmenting our insights in what is to-day considered as a great innovating, and by now classical, epoch in the history of music. Craft is the great intermediary to this modernism movement indeed.
This book, with the wonderful title: Down a Path of Wonder, contains 47 short, mostly personal essays, both biographical and musicological and analytically invaluable. Above all, they deal with his memories of Stravinsky and the essential works of Stravinsky as well as Schoenberg's. Of particular interest is everything he tells us about Stravinsky, private close-up pictures as it is, often with a humoristic touch and with much fresh material. They give us an inestimable additional picture of Stravinsky, but also of Schoenberg, and not least of the controversial relation between both of them, avoiding each other during their late life in the U.S.A., due maybe to jalousie de métier but all the same with reciprocal reverence; Stravinsky was the first to send his condolences when Schoenberg died in 1951.
Among other portraits, you'll find an astonishing and most revealing one of the great conductor Otto Klemperer. But Craft's scholarship is multifarious and versatile, and what he has to say about literature is of considerable value as well(Mallarmé, Huxley, Waugh, T.S.Eliot and Forster among others). The essay about the relationship between Stravinsky and Eliot offers a lot of fascinating glimpses, and I also found the studies of Eliot as a philosopher and of Eliot's approach to prose fiction very rewarding.
The book finishes with three personal travel diaries from the 2000s: impressions and facts from Cambodia, Venice and Seville. This is really a very rich and many-sided collection of essays, and its wealth is to be studied personally and in a slow tempo, just two or three essays at a time. Craft is a very thoughtful and circumspect writer, often using many very rare words (read the book with a dictionary beside you!), but all the time stimulating and amusing, with a concreteness and a human warmth that is the hallmark of a true humanist.
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