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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a standard in an idiom which didn't exist when it... A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

LENOX — True, you still don’t find Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” on many compilations with titles like “classical music for relaxation.” But in the century since this ferocious score came stomping ...

(The) Firebird Suite, Movements: Introduction Oregon Symphony Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer James DePreist, Conductor (The) Firebird Suite, Movements: The princesses' khorovod Igor Stravinsky, ...

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring has been called “the most important piece of music of the 20th century” by Leonard Bernstein, described as “sounding like a voice from another planet” by Aaron Copland ...

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 ...