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 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. The UA ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

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 ...

When the tiny old man walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan’s Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked ...

It’s hard today to imagine a ballet causing an audience to riot, but that’s what happened 100 years ago when the well-heeled Parisian spectators at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées revolted against Igor ...

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 ...

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

The legendary frontman plays all the characters in a new recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Critic Lloyd Schwartz calls it a seriously enjoyable addition to the Stravinsky catalog.

Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Which may explain why the ...