Tom Service: Stravinsky the modernist

Another quick postcard from LA: this is Igor Stravinsky's house at North Wetherly Drive, just off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, where he lived from the late 1940s. It's a weird place: you turn off the glitz and glamour of Sunset, up a steep, winding street, to find a world of quiet, expansive, and expensive houses. I don't know who owns 1260 now, but behind its genteel, European-style wooden facade, Stravinsky made the most surprising compositional turn of his whole life, when he adopted his ow...

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