This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev's powerful, nearly maniacal interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a lesson in controlled chaos. He... The Rite of Spring sparked the most famous riot in music ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring, which famously incited audience uproar in its 1913 Paris premiere, is an ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2024/25 season with powerful performances centered around Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Under the direction of Music Director Salvador Brotons, the ...

Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” with its crazy, pulsing polyrhythms and pitchy shrieks, has become standard orchestral fare, but it famously was booed when it premiered as a ballet score in Paris ...

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev's powerful, nearly maniacal interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a lesson in controlled chaos. He... Stravinsky's Most Raging 'Rite Of Spring' Stravinsky's ...