Igor Stravinsky's fortunes had not kept pace with his fame. In the 37 years since he had written it, The Firebird had made a lot of money, but not for him. For one thing, as a Russian emigre, his royalties seldom caught up with him. Guided by his friend, Music Publisher Lou Levy, Stravinsky has earned $10,000 on Firebird in the past two years, simply by writing a new arrangement of it and thereby securing a U.S. copyright. But Levy wasn't through helping.
Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley...
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