Igor Stravinsky is widely known as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and one of his revolutionary ballets is coming to Tucson to honor the 100 year anniversary of its creation. The UA ...

When the tiny old man walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan’s Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked ...

Spring is all about new beginnings, and the season’s dance calendar is filled with new works from both hometown and touring companies. Among the highlights are two programs featuring music by ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A box set of recordings pairs Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, with the conductor who championed his works. By Anthony Tommasini On April 6, 1971 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A hundred years ago this week, the premiere of Russian emigre composer Igor Stravinsky's pounding, pagan, pulsating "The Rite of Spring" caused a near riot in Paris and changed the ...

The classical music world went nuts when a Russian musicologist discovered Igor Stravinsky's long-lost Funeral Song, Op. 5, at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory during a move in 2015. Nobody had heard ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

The legendary frontman plays all the characters in a new recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Critic Lloyd Schwartz calls it a seriously enjoyable addition to the Stravinsky catalog.