Only Connect - Igor Stravinsky <> Thomas Eliot
How are these sitters connected?
Samuel Dushkin; Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
by Paul Tanqueray
1934
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T.S. Eliot
by Patrick Heron
1949
NPG 4467
The connection
T.S.Eliot and Igor Stravinsky discussed the premiere of Stravinsky’s Canticum Sacrum in San Marco, Venice which was criticised in Time magazine using a reference to the title of Eliot’s play, Murder in the Cathedral.
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