Many of the big-band masterpieces of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, for instance, strike me as indistinguishable, in their creative genesis, from orchestral works by Igor Stravinsky and Aaron ...

“I am becoming,” said 77-year-old Igor Stravinsky, “not less but more of a serial composer.” The reference was to his latest work, a twelve-minute exercise in what the most famed living ...

This story begins and ends with a photo. It’s Igor Stravinsky, the legendary modernist composer. He looks a little worse for wear. In fact, it looks like a mug shot. The date on the Boston ...

As you watch École des Sables give their shattering account of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, it’s worth remembering that Igor Stravinsky himself was not in favour of a dance treatment.

Ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev pulled the strings with Léonide Massine providing choreography, Igor Stravinsky the music, and Pablo Picasso the costumes and sets. For Picasso and Stravinsky ...

Before him, José Feliciano in 1968 and Igor Stravinsky in 1944 also gave audiences hitherto unheard experiences of the national anthem. Their interpretations invited controversy, but each artist ...

Scottish Opera has turned towards something altogether more ’difficult’ in Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, with a Latin libretto, translated by Abbé Jean Daniélou from Jean Cocteau’s ...

They're joining forces for Igor Stravinsky's 1928 ballet “Apollo,” choreographed by a 24-year-old George Balanchine. “It is the oldest work from Balanchine that has survived and it is, of course, an ...

On June 2 — many having just arrived from the airport — the students readied for their first rehearsal, playing “Petrushka” by the influential 20th Century composer, Igor Stravinsky.

The performances feature Apollo - the legendary first collaboration between choreographer George Balanchine and composer Igor Stravinsky. The program is rounded out with an acclaimed work by San ...

Presented under the title “Symphony Exploder,” Hirway, Gimeno and the TSO are set to dissect one of the most famous modern classical compositions, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...

Now they also had to contend with a leaner, feistier ghost. Bartók, like Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg, had the fortune to be a popular modernist, appealing to a broad audience while keeping his ...