Devon United Kingdom
Perched somewhere between the recent completion of his ballet Agon and the composition of Threni, did Igor Stravinsky have to confront one of life’s most intractable West Country conundrums? Faced with an invitingly split scone, is it clotted cream or jam first?
In the summer of 1957, the composer found himself a headlining faculty member of what was to become the soundtrack to a Devonian summer: Dartington International Summer School and Festival. Perhaps Stravinsky dodged the teatime
