Igor Stravinsky’s score for Le Sacre du Printemps has been raising eyebrows since it premiered 100 years ago, with a performance that ended in a riot. Since then, it’s been a challenge for ...

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 ...

1 Two Suspects Arrested After False Bomb Threat at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater In his role as Director of the Program in Musical Performance at Princeton University, Maestro Pratt has led ...

Composer Alexandre Desplat plays “Happy Birthday to You” on his keyboard — but with a twist: the final note on “you” is higher than in the traditional melody. It’s Igor Stravinsky’s “Greeting Prelude, ...

Twentieth Century music never got over the wrenching shock of the new administered by Igor Stravinsky’s seminal masterpiece, “The Rite of Spring.” The ballet’s Paris premiere in 1913 created the most ...

The music of Igor Stravinsky, from the driving, complex, madly difficult rhythms of his 1913 “Rite of Spring” to the neoclassical austerity of his 1928 “Apollo,” is closely tied to the development of ...

NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall opened its new season Wednesday with a determinedly festive gala program featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Guest stars Renée Fleming and Audra ...

Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene of one of the most astounding opening nights in history. In this episode of Keeping Score ...

One of the century’s great composers makes his home in Hollywood—surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they’re missing ...

1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights In his role as Director of the Program in Musical Performance at Princeton University, Maestro Pratt has led performances of ...