A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a standard in an idiom which didn't exist when it... A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a ...

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...

About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...

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 ...

It’s hard today to imagine a ballet causing an audience to riot, but that’s what happened 100 years ago when the well-heeled Parisian spectators at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées revolted against Igor ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

The first time I heard “The Rite of Spring” I was 13 or 14. As I remember it, the record was lying around the house, in a sleeve but without a jacket. I guess it was my mother’s, though she didn’t ...

A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a jazz standard. The Rite and jazz music at large can be seen as cousins. Roughly contemporaneous, both ...

Not long after his shocking ballet, the composer branched out into a broad range of styles, ushering in new musical trends far from the violent... Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite Of Spring' Counterrevolution ...