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When Bernstein conducted Stravinsky, modern music came alive The composer Igor Stravinsky in New York, in 1964. A box set of recordings pairs Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, with the conductor Leonard Bernstein, who championed his works. Sam Falk/The New York Times. by Anthony Tommasini (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- On April 6, 1971, a balmy spring day in New Haven, Connecticut, I arrived at the main building of the Yale School of Music a little late for a piano lesson. But I stopped at the front door. Someone had tacked up a small white note card: “Igor Stravinsky died today.” Those four words staggered me. Stravinsky had been central to the entire span of 20th-century music thus far. His “Rite of Spring,” from 1913, had been part of the creation of modernism — what seemed like ancient history. Yet in an analysis class that very semester in 1971, we were studying the score of what was still quite a new piece — his extraordinary “Requiem Canticles,” from 1966 — trying

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