I received two letters from him. I wrote him October 25 in New York and asked him for word of his arrival plans in Hollywood. I expected a telegram from him announcing the hour of his airplane. On November 9 the telegram came. It said he was dead. All I could do was cry.
— Igor Stravinsky Modern

Rite of Spring, modernist composer

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Recounting receiving a telegram about Dylan Thomas's death.

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1953

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