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 ...

His music started a riot and was chosen by Disney to create the world. He collaborated with Picasso and Auden and influenced composers from Boulez to Tavener. Twentieth-century music is unimaginable ...

Amanda Smith: This is music for the ballet Apollo. The composer is Igor Stravinsky and the ballet is the oldest surviving choreography by George Balanchine. In Artworks today we're talking about how ...

Hear excerpts of "The Rite of Spring" in conductor Valery Gergiev's thrilling performance with the Kirov Orchestra. Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) is often held up ...

As the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death approaches, we should salute a master of emotional restraint and technical skill Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

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 ...

A Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does ...

Stravinsky’s famous ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring are balanced on this impressive live set with valuable lesser-known pieces In 2018, the London Philharmonic and its principal conductor ...

Over a two-week period in June, I was exposed to great art -- courtesy of the Greenwich Music Festival. With its subject as Igor Stravinsky, called the most famous composer of the 20th century, we ...

Igor Stravinsky was still in his 20s when a dream of a girl dancing herself to death in a pagan ritual inspired him to come up with the thunderous, revolutionary Rite Of Spring. An avant garde ballet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Combining the music of Igor Stravinsky and Kendrick Lamar, as the Phoenix Symphony is about to do the weekend of May 29-30, may ...