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 ...
The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...
1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights In his role as Director of the Program in Musical Performance at Princeton University, Maestro Pratt has led performances of ...
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 ...
David Robertson conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra during a performance of Stravinsky's Fireworks on April 25, 2019 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Ben Torres / Special ...
1 Francis Patrelle, Choreographer and Founder of Dances Patrelle, Dies at 78 In his role as Director of the Program in Musical Performance at Princeton University, Maestro Pratt has led performances ...