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Wed, 04/14/2021 LAWRENCE – He doesn’t go there in the new book “Stravinsky in Context” (Cambridge University Press), but Alan Street is fine if you think of the artistic conflict between rival 20 th-century classical music composers Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg as akin to the Biggie-Tupac feud. No actual shots were fired by Stravinsky, Schoenberg or their crews, but tons of shade was thrown. And those were the days, let’s not forget, when aesthetic arguments could – and performances of works by both men did – cause riots. “Creative egos are large, and they tend to bounce off each other,” said Street, associate professor of music theory at the University of Kansas. “If we think about Biggie and Tupac, it’s not that sort of muscular standoff. But it is a case of not giving ground, of wanting people to know that you have your opinions, and you have a deep sense of your own significance, when perhaps most of the public is indifferent to the work you do

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