Over a two-week period in June, I was exposed to great art -- courtesy of the Greenwich Music Festival. With its subject as Igor Stravinsky, called the most famous composer of the 20th century, we ...

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 ...

Alexander Shelley leads the Pacific Symphony in a spectacular presentation of Stravinsky's Firebird from January 15 to 18, featuring full-length animated visuals. The concert opens with John Adams’ ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Part two of the double bill is a new adaptation for dancers and acrobats of ...

If we are to believe Stravinsky’s opinions as expressed in his writings, we could easily conclude that the composer would not have approved of Olli Mustonen’s performances of the three Stravinsky ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky’s fortunes had not kept pace with his fame. In the 37 years since he had written it, The Firebird had made a lot of money, but not for him. For one thing, as a Russian emigre, his ...

A n art and music collaboration between the New Hampshire Philharmonic and Granite State students is rising like a phoenix over Salem’s Seifert Performing Arts Center this weekend. As part of the ...