Although a complete picture of Igor Stravinsky’s personal and creative life is likely to remain a mystery, one thing is certain. The composer’s achievement with “The Rite of Spring” in 1913 challenged ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought some sheet music back to Paris ...

‘Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels,” a festival that began in October at various venues in the city, is now wrapping up with two extended runs that opened last week.

One of the century’s great composers makes his home in Hollywood—surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they’re missing ...

But the music was all too much for Chines’ instrument. During a particularly powerful passage, a piece of one of the piano keys flew off under his right hand. But then, like an absolute hero, Chines ...

'My music is best understood by children and animals,' said Igor Stravinsky. Undaunted, Tom Service seeks the essence of one of the 20th century's most elusive composers. Show more "My music is best ...

Stravinsky’s name is so inextricably associated these days with landmark scores in the fields of ballet, opera, choral and orchestral music, that his gifts as a pianist tend to be overlooked. During ...

This is about as attractive a programme for a single CD of Stravinsky’s music as could be devised. The inclusion of the ‘Chorale’ is particularly canny. Naxos doesn’t claim it as a first, but I’m not ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...