Pulitzer Prize winning rapper Kendrick Lamar and classical music composer Igor Stravinsky have much more in common than a ...
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 ...
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s staged performance of Stravinsky’s ballet “The Firebird," was a captivating spectacle of ...
In his fascinating new hour-long documentary, “Stravinsky in Hollywood,” made for European television and now released on DVD by C-Major, Marco Capalbo begins with the oft-quoted statistic that Igor ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As Charles M. Joseph observes, ninety percent of Stravinsky’s music has been put to work and play in ballets. His ...
On Aug. 18, conductor Charles Dutoit curates a Tanglewood concert featuring two works of Igor Stravinsky: his 1918 “L'Histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier's Tale”) and his 1923 Octet for wind instruments ...
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 ...
The Rite of Spring was a revolutionary work for a revolutionary time. Its first performance in Paris, exactly 100 years ago on Wednesday, was a key moment in cultural history – a tumultuous scandal.
Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his widow, Marianne ...
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 ...
Stravinsky's works fall conveniently into three periods. The first, his "Russian" period, lasts until just before the First World War. The key works of this period feature lavish and exotic ...
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