RUSSIAN VISIT
Invitation To Stravinsky
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 16. Igor Stravinsky, the composer, would like to return next year, at the age of 80. to his former homeland. Russia, for the first time in 52 years, he told a press conference in Wellington today. Stravinsky said Russia had invited him to make the trip He had accepted “in principle” and would go if he could arrange it. He had left Russia in 1910 "because of health reasons." he said, and it wpuld be very interesting to see the country again. “But emotionally it might not be so happy an experience.” he added. He made it clear he does not approve of Russia today. “Karl Marx was a professional philosopher, but Khrushchev isn't." he said On “music for the workers and peasants” he said the idea was absurd. “Many workers don't think about music, don't feel it, don't need it,” he said. He himself did not compose music for any particular group of people. “I only feel I need to speak—and surely I speak to someone who needs it"
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29673, 17 November 1961, Page 5
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