Stravinsky
October, 1961
StravinskyIgor Stravinsky—a slight, somewhat stooped elder citizen whose deeply crevassed jowls and heavy, dark-rimmed spectacles accentuate a generally somber physiognomy—is a man with a long and distinguished past who might now be expected to play the part of the benign old master. He does nothing of the kind. Stravinsky makes no attempt to build a bridge across time to la belle époque. In his eightieth year he remains the model of a modern iconoclast.If you ask him to reminisce, Stravinsky wi...