SANTA BARBARA — On Oct. 11, 1954, a 20-year-old soprano, a recent graduate of USC, performed in the premiere of a new version of Igor Stravinsky’s “Four Russian Peasant Songs” at the new ...

Wendy Whelan, New York City Ballet associate artistic director. The “Scherzo à la Russe” is a treasure trove of great rhythms that, like so much of Stravinsky’s music, makes me want to move ...

Coltrane says he enjoyed listening to Stravinsky as a kid, even though it wasn't anything like the other music he grew up with. ... it really brought me back to Dix Hills, Long Island, late '60s.

Ask the average classical-music or ballet fan to name a famous "modern" composer and most probably the answer will be Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). But outside of professional music circles ...

On the beautiful afternoon of April 8, 1971, in New York, a music student took a stroll to pay last respects to composer Igor Stravinsky.

The idea for the work came to Stravinsky in 1910 when he was composing The Firebird for the impresario Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. The composer put the project to one side for a year while ...

The ‘Augurs of Spring’ is the first dance in Stravinsky’s 35-minute ballet score, and with famously stamping chords and irregular accents depicts a celebration of spring in the hills. In 1913 it was ...

The Nation Magazine. The recent reissue of the twenty-two-CD Igor Stravinsky box set (Sony Classical, $35)–a collection of some twenty-five hours of music conducted mostly by Stravinsky ...

Dudamel says he has a "very special and beautiful" history with Stravinsky's music. "My father was playing in the Lara [Venezuela] Symphony Orchestra," he explains, "and I went to the concert. It ...

Doubts have been cast on Fokine's story. But the project certainly ended up in the hands of the 28-year-old Stravinsky, who created a shimmering fairy-tale world, full of glowing orchestral colour.