Julian Grant's music is attractive, and his mix of Stravinskian orchestral colors with mellifluous attic-style modal melodies works beautifully. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The music is by the often forbidding Richard Strauss, composing Stravinskian neo-classical orchestral arrangements of Couperin harpsichord pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Morris Night at the San Francisco Ballet] Reference
Memoria, a wind quintet that begins by bathing in the elegant yet mercurial textures of Debussy and Janacek and ends with a weirdly Stravinskian chorale (played with great panache by the Imani Winds), was both touching and unexpected. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Roth���s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs] Reference
One of them, given in New York during Stravinsky's first American tour in January 1925, appeared in translation in a German newspaper and apparently provoked both Schoenberg's anti-Stravinskian squib entitled "Der Restaurateur," and his little canon about "der kleine Modernsky" in Drei Satiren, op. From Wordnik.com. ['Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange] Reference
Stravinskian, but then it's kind of like rock and roll, but it's not-the harmonic fields are more chromatic than rock and roll. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
The string writing is rugged, with a hint of Stravinskian tartness, but the real draw is the virtuosic solo writing: Baroque in shape but with a modern harmonic accent. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
This 15-minute work, written for "an enlarged chamber ensemble rather than the full sound of the symphonic ensemble," begins with a Stravinskian first movement that uses syncopated rhythms and irregular, changing meters. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Mozart of dancers here turns Stravinskian. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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