New Book On Stravinsky/Craft Sparks Angry Denunciations

A new book about Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky has elicited sharp attacks from Craft, now 80. “He denounces [the author’s] ‘total’ misunderstanding of Stravinsky as a human being” and deplores “the way that he became ‘disputatious, then rebarbative’, with a ‘sole interest’ in ‘gathering gossip damaging to me’.”