Performance

L'Histoire du soldat

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Stravinsky’s *L’Histoire du soldat* (1918) is a compact stage work that sits between concert and theater, scored for a seven-piece band with spoken text and movement. It retells a folk fable in which a soldier trades his violin to the Devil, and the bargain corrodes his sense of time, belonging, and self. At The Stone at The New School, the score is realized by Carina Yee (violin), Jesse Heasly (bass), Matt Bent (drums/percussion), Jake Baldwin (trumpet), Kathryn Vetter (clarinet), Colin Babcock (trombone), and Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon). In New York, the piece has long served as a marker of modernist performance culture, and its wiry rhythms still read like a critique of how easily art becomes currency.