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This year, the Mendocino Music Festival has chosen Igor Stravinsky as the featured composer. At the festival, which runs from ...
Igor Stravinsky is widely known as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and one of his revolutionary ballets is coming to Tucson to honor the 100 year anniversary of its creation.
Governor JB Pritzker has announced Christian Mitchell will be his running mate as a candidate for lieutenant governor of ...
Stravinsky 50 - River Of Music. Stravinsky. To mark half a century since the end of Igor Stravinsky’s long and creative musical life, Radio 3 presents an expertly-curated ‘river’ of his music.
Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) is often held up as a masterwork that changed modern music forever. Music commentator Miles Hoffman takes the distinction one ...
Stravinsky’s music may have found its original impulse in the bitterness and cynicism left by World War I, but its sentiments, style, and idiom are strangely in tune with our epoch too.
Alex Ross on Igor Stravinsky’s “Funeral Song,” from 1908, which was rediscovered in 2014 and which the New York Philharmonic will perform this week.
After Kurt Weill caught the German premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat” in Berlin in 1923, he declared it “the mixed genre most assured of a future,&#8… ...
Of his 89 years, Igor Stravinsky spent more than 30 in Los Angeles -- composing, conducting, flirting with the movie industry, participating in the city's growing musical awareness to a greater ...
When Stravinsky wrote The Firebird he can't have expected he'd still be topping the charts centuries later… Igor Stravinsky was a trend-setter, someone who prioritised creative freedom over any ...