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Stravinsky’s Los Angeles (in TECHNICOLOR®)
Courtesy of Dangerous Minds, here is some very cool stock footage of the Sunset Strip on a sunny day in 1964.
While it’s certainly incredible to have such pristine historical footage of a landmark, the nerd in me was most interested in the fact that the camera comes tantalizingly close to Stravinsky’s house. Stravinsky’s old house on North Wetherly Drive (in which he lived from 1940 to 1969) is just north of the strip at the foot of the Hollywood hills, a few yards away from what is now the Roxy. As this video shows, the Roxy used to be called the Largo; the car goes right by North Wetherly at around 1:10. Take a right turn, go up the hill for 15 seconds and Igor would have been in the sloping white house on the right. A pretty sweet looking town car turns right in front of the camera from that street at 1:07; I like to think that it’s Stravinsky’s live-in assistant/amanuensis/adopted son Robert Craft taking the old couple for a drive, or maybe heading down to a liquor store for some scotch, which his master drank like water.
I’ve written about Stravinsky’s life in Los Angeles before. Although the 82-year old composer was beginning to be more and more dogged by health issues in 1964, he still managed to write some masterful music: the ferocious, intense Variations: Aldous Huxley in Memoriam and the Elegy for J.F.K., mournful epitaphs on two great men who had died on the same day in November 1963.
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