To mark the birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882) classical host Cale Wiggins sets the record straight about riots and The Rite. Stravinsky's monumental work will be ...

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 ...

Minnesota Orchestra; Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor; recorded on October 3, 1977 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Candide-Vox CT 2212 (cassette); QCE 31108 (long-play record); Vox ...

This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

(Above: Performers from Rec Room’s production of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring.” Photo: Natasha Gorel) When Igor Stravinsky’s famous — and perhaps infamous — ballet: The Rite of Spring ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2024/25 season with powerful performances centered around Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Under the direction of Music Director Salvador Brotons, the ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA concludes the 2024/25 season with performances featuring highly acclaimed pianist Olga Kern on Saturday, May 31 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m. at Skyview ...

Due to yet another cancellation in the 2011−2012 season by Italian guest conductor RiccardoChailly, the first half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance last Tuesday consisted of entirely ...

When used simply as marketing tools, classical music anniversaries resemble the fast-food industry. And this has been no more musically unhealthful than the “Rite of Spring” centennial two years ago.

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 ...