As a fan of those large scale compositions called “symphonies,” you have arrived at a crossroads. You can easily identify Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by the first four notes (da-da-da-DAAAAH!), you are ...

With the music for the ballet The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky made an indelible mark on the future of music composition. The Rite of Spring broke many boundaries; influencing future generations to ...

The music of Igor Stravinsky, from the driving, complex, madly difficult rhythms of his 1913 “Rite of Spring” to the neoclassical austerity of his 1928 “Apollo,” is closely tied to the development of ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

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 ...

Starting today, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will begin a five day performance run one of the all time great “lost works” of music – Igor Stravinsky’s “Chant Funebre” (Funeral Song). The piece ...

KPBS FM Radio Film Review: “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” By Beth Accomando Air date: June 17, 2010 HOST INTRO: Coco Chanel was the subject of a recent biopic, and now she’s the subject of another.

World-renowned composer who was born in St. Petersburg scventy-five years ago. IGOR STRAVINSKY studied composition under Rimsky-korsakov and made his reputation with the Firebird ballet produced by ...