To mark the birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882) classical host Cale Wiggins sets the record straight about riots and The Rite. Stravinsky's monumental work will be ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2019, the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra will perform with the UA-based Huxford Symphony Orchestra.

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 ...

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 ...

Not long after his shocking ballet, the composer branched out into a broad range of styles, ushering in new musical trends far from the violent... Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite Of Spring' Counterrevolution ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH — Both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras paired related works on concerts this week. Following the DSO’s Austro-German program, reviewed separately, the FWSO on Friday presented ...

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 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 ...