Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Whatever their historical validity, the picture of Stravinsky these autobiographical productions conjure up is of ...
Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan’s Town Hall and ...
This week's Puzzler is seasoned with the gutteral sounds of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. We hear a bit of this ballet music, played by the Cleveland Orchestra, with Pierre Boulez conducting.