Moricz, Klara - Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourie

Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourie explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourie. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence, Lourie 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.

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CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Introduction:
End Games and Funeral Games
By Klara Moricz
Chapter 1
Arthur Lourie: A Biographical Sketch
By Olesya Bobrik, translated by Klara Moricz and Simon Morrison
Chapter 2:
Turania Revisited, with Lourie My Guide
By Richard Taruskin
Chapter 3:
Koussevitzky's Ghostwriter
By Simon Morrison
Chapter 4:
Retrieving What Time Destroys: The Palimpsest of Lourie's The Blackamoor of Peter the Great
Appendix A: Excerpt from Scene 1, Gossip
Appendix B: Scene 3, Les Adieux
By Klara Moricz
Chapter 5:
Jacques Maritain and the Catholic Muse in Lourie's Post-Petersburg Worlds
By Caryl Emerson
Epilogue:
The Silver Age and Tinseltown
By Simon Morrison