Down a Path of Wonder: Part One: Music: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern: Part Two: Literature: Mallarmé, Joyce, Eliot Auden: Part Three: Travel Diaries 2001-2004: Cambodia, Italian Vignettes, Seville

Robert Craft met Stravinsky by invitation in 1948, after nearly four years of letter correspondence with the composer. It was this close association that steered Craft into a stimulating world of leading composers, writers and artists. At virtually the same time that he became a member of the Stravinsky household, Craft, aged twenty-four, discovered the 'path of wonder' created by Arnold Schoenberg. In 1950 the young conductor sought instruction from Schoenberg in the performance of his music, a…