The facts about the revolutionary character of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are well known. Capitalizing upon the ...
The facts about the revolutionary character of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are well known. Capitalizing upon the triumphs of The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911), Sergei Diaghilev ...
Caroline Howells, known professionally as Cici Howells, a Welshpool-born artist, has achieved a world first by choreographing ...
Something happened May 29, 1913, when composer Igor Stravinsky debuted “The Rite of Spring” as music for a ballet in Paris.
His administration claims the institution smells like vomit. Meanwhile, current and former staffers bemoan a stressful, ...
But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went one step further than them all by having his own field recordings of birds star as the solo instrument in his 1972 piece “Cantus Arcticus: Concerto ...
and Igor Stravinsky (the composer’s 1911 ballet, “Petrushka”) seemed as orderly as a well-set table. In practice, Noseda and his orchestra sustained a tension that commanded attention ...
A program featuring violinist Leonidas Kavakos was disrupted by long lines and security checks to accommodate the vice president’s visit.
with a soloist playing “Violin Concerto No. 2” by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the orchestra playing the ballet “Petrushka” by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, according to ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Marin Alsop led the orchestra in a program of works by Beethoven, Brahms and Stravinsky, as well as a new violin concerto by Nico ...