The Rake's Progress Judith Raskin as Ann and John Reardon as Nick Shadow, is from London 1964 and is conducted by Stravinsky himself. It is currently available on the Sony/BMG 22-CD box set "Works of Igor Stravinsky". Sources The Rake's Progress The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings "A Rake's Progress" (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. The story concerns the decline and fall of
William S. Brock William S. Brock William S. Brock, Sr. (1895 – November 13, 1932) was an aviation pioneer. With Edward F. Schlee he made the eighth non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. He was born in 1895. He married Violet Harrison January 23, 1915 in Rochester, New York and had as their son, William S. Brock, Jr. In 1927, he and Edward F. Schlee planned to fly around the world in their airplane "Pride of Detroit". He died on November 13, 1932 at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois of cancer. The airplane "Pride of Detroit" is in the Henry Ford Museum in