Igor Stravinsky - Stravinsky sailed (alone) for The United States
Time: Sep, 1939
Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Details: Despite the outbreak of World War II on 1 September 1939, the widowed Stravinsky sailed (alone) for the United States at the end of the month, arriving in New York City and thence to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to fulfill his engagement at Harvard.
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