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Comments by composer Stravinsky on a variety of topics, mostly musical

CONTINGENCIES (WITH SOME NOTES ON "TWENTIETH CENTURY MANNERISM"). Words -- Current enemies of art -- Art and money -- The rising cost of art -- An imperfect science -- Education by automation -- Talent and the population explosion -- Provincialism -- Form and function -- New music : five examples -- Conspiracy of silence -- Longevity -- The new terminology -- By any other name? -- Individuality -- Change of life -- Eye music -- Envoi. -- PROGRAM NOTES. Pribaoutiki -- Symphonies of wind instruments -- Eight instrumental miniatures -- Three sacred choruses -- Four etudes for orchestra -- Jeu de Cartes -- Dumbarton Oaks concerto -- Symphony in C -- Danses concertantes -- Orpheus -- The rake's progress -- The rake's progress : "La prima assoluta" -- Greeting prelude -- Abraham and Isaac -- Elegy for J. F. K. -- Variations -- Introitus : T. S. Eliot in memoriam. -- LETTERS AND RIPOSTES (BILLETS DOUX). Letters to cousin in Moscow (from Vera Stravinsky) -- Concerning a music journalist in Los Angeles -- Concerning Edgard Varèse -- Some observations on V. D. -- INTERVIEWS. Transcript of BBC television interview -- In the name of Jean-Jacques! -- A talk with Stravinsky -- A perfect total -- A decade later. -- OBITUARY. Some table talk of T. S. Eliot -- BOOK REVIEWS. Schoenberg's letters -- Wagner's prose. -- ON CONDUCTORS AND CONDUCTING. -- FROM THE DIARIES OF ROBERT CRAFT, 1949-1966