| 单词 | Stravinsky |
| 例句 | He commissioned the unknown, untested Igor Stravinsky to provide music for one of the new ballets, The Firebird. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Stravinsky reported that the idea for a piece based on an ancient pagan dance of ritual human sacrifice came to him in a dream and that the scenario suggested such a deliberately layered sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There is a seductive, hallucinogenic quality to much Debussy, though, in contrast to the forceful physicality and ritualistic hypnosis of Stravinsky. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some measure of the political sensitivity and topicality of the Brecht-Weill musicals is apparent when compared with Stravinsky’s notoriously controversial Rite of Spring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The hybrid keening-singing- declaiming style Stravinsky adopted was like no sound ever before heard in a concert hall or theatre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By commissioning Stravinsky for the 1910 season, no one could accuse Diaghilev of being sheepish with his choice of composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even though The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring ballets all have narrative threads, Stravinsky played against this tendency in his scores for them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In their own different ways, all the radicals in the post-Wagner meltdown - Mahler, Debussy, Strauss and Stravinsky - were dismantling the previous system of musical organisation, whereby ideas carefully unfolded, one developing into the next. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was a question that had already begun to be answered, but neither Stravinsky nor Debussy, in 1913, would have guessed just how massive the forces of change were going to be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I went because I know I used to like Stravinsky but somehow I no longer have the patience for it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring or Orff’s Carmina Burana, for example, would not be good choices as they are likely to promote agitation and frenetic activity rather than concentration and productivity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Stravinsky's style - the jerky jigsaw of adjacent, unrelated musical segments - was also abandoned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The opening night review ran on the front page of The New York Times, with a photo of Balanchine toasting Stravinsky. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Two alternating programs highlight his inspired interpretations of the work of two disparate composers: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z His insightful and expressive interpretations of music from Byrd to Stravinsky shone new light on familiar repertoire and opened up works unheard for centuries to choral singers across the world. Richard Marlow 2013-07-02T12:04:53Z When Stravinsky was studying with Rimsky-Korsakov, Wagner was a constant topic of conversation: the two regularly attended performances of the “Ring” operas in St. Petersburg, including a “Götterdämmerung” two months before Rimsky-Korsakov’s death. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z It shows three modern masters — Ottorino Respighi, Magnus Lindberg and Igor Stravinsky — using their orchestral wizardry well, if, in Respighi’s case, not always wisely. Review: The New York Philharmonic Offers Works by Modern Masters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Balanchine, who had studied music in his youth, set the poem to a simple melody, which Stravinsky then elaborated. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In Prokofiev’s case, this suite is all that is left from an unsuccessful 1915 ballet in which the composer hoped to capitalize on the musical barbarity of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” two years earlier. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But nearly every City Ballet season includes a de facto Stravinsky festival. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Mr. Craft, 89, was Stravinsky’s confidant and literary collaborator in his final decades and has for many years written his own accounts of the composer’s life and work. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” is hardly child’s play, but these prize students may just make it sound easy. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z And there is some connection between those films and the ostensible central focus of “Bear/Skin”: Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” ‘Fest’ and ‘Bear/Skin’ at American Realness Festival 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z As part of the prize for that victory he is being presented in this recital, playing works by Mozart, Brahms, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z The most straightforward of the bunch was Simon McBurney’s production of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” at the Aix Festival in France. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z I played under Stravinsky and can remember how he spoke about his work. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z Not everyone agreed with this while Stravinsky lived; and among the most vociferous dissenters was Stravinsky. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Wigmore Hall devoted a day to his compositions, played by various ensembles and, in the final event, combining his own works with Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale Suite and Fauré's Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor. Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z Most of the reviews paid no attention to Stravinsky beyond naming him as the composer before turning with gusto to the weird antics onstage and the weirder ones in the hall... Art vs. Blasphemy 2012-09-18T14:57:34Z “You never get tired of it. Do you get tired of Bach or Stravinsky?” Washington couple donates personal Duchamp collection to the Hirshhorn 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Influenced as much by Stravinsky as by Ellington or Gil Evans, and open to the wildest diversions from improvising soloists, Towns' explosive albums remain at the cutting-edge of big-ensemble jazz. F&M playlist 2011-01-27T22:15:01Z Seven of this week’s works are to Stravinsky, one to Hindemith and one to Webern. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z Hearing Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” sparked Mr. Johnson’s interest in modern classical composition. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z In that respect and others, the concert that followed in Memorial Hall, with Vladimir Tarnopolski conducting the Studio for New Music Ensemble from Moscow, carried Stravinsky's banner forward. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z Disney threw out Stravinsky’s detailed scenario for “The Firebird” and basically did a remake of the 1940 sequence on Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. The National Symphony Orchestra performs ‘Fantasia’ at Wolf Trap My first experience of Tanglewood came in 1963, on an evening that ended in a pelting rainstorm as Eugene Ormandy conducted the Boston Symphony in Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z He opened that world to other composers, the way they were influenced harmonically by Debussy and rhythmically by Stravinsky. ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z At a panel discussion on Saturday, Christopher H. Gibbs, a professor of music at Bard, suggested that given such a capacious artist, a more accurate title for the festival might be “Stravinsky and His Worlds.” Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z He’s just someone who is incredibly rounded as a player, who can quote from Stravinsky and Howlin’ Wolf and put them together to make his own sound.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z One is that the music written in Europe remains at the top of the Stravinsky hit parade. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, Copland, and others realized this, and their music remains in the standard repertory. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In the late 1920s, "Apollo" marked an early collaboration between artistic titans George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, April 8-14 2012-04-04T23:29:04Z His program on Friday at 11 a.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. features symphonic poems — Stravinsky’s “The Song of the Nightingale” and Zemlinsky’s “The Mermaid” — and Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, with Judith LeClair. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z It often also recalls the early Stravinsky of “The Firebird” and “Petrouchka.” Dance Review: Horseplay for the Staid Mariinsky 2011-07-13T22:23:04Z Stravinsky, who lived in France for many years, dedicated it to Debussy, and echoes of his music can be heard throughout. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z A Stravinsky evening featured “The Rite of Spring,” “The Nightingale” and “Oedipus Rex.” Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Ronnie Oliver Jr. leads the school’s chamber choir and double wind quintet in a rendition of Stravinsky’s “Mass.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:38:38Z And my European influences — Stravinsky, Ravel — are done here all the time, too. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z “To me,” he said, “it sounds kind of like Stravinsky meets David Byrne meets I don’t know.” Outsiders No More: Shaggs Musical Coming in 2011 2010-06-23T19:39:00Z So was the good Stravinsky a Russian Stravinsky? Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Via Stravinsky, a Girl and a Doll, Rapturous and Mechanized The story told by the New York Philharmonic program “A Dancer’s Dream” last week was curious, even chilling. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z The importance of Martha Graham in modern dance can't be overstated: Like Picasso and Stravinsky, she is credited with bringing a classical art form forcibly into the 20th century through radical, and shocking, innovation. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Blechman’s visual references stretch from peasant Russia to the space age, from Kandinsky to LPs — in other words, over the many decades of Stravinsky’s eventful life. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z His former stepfather, Robert Cole, worked as a conductor under the likes of Stravinsky and Bernstein, before taking over the presenting organization Cal Performances. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner He worked with Stravinsky on seven books, then later produced another with Stravinsky’s widow, Vera. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Danger and a Stranger You won’t find lyrical passages of Stravinsky in Padraig Reynolds’s “Rites of Spring,” just the dissonant sounds of kidnapping, murder and human sacrifice. Movie Review: ‘Rites of Spring,’ Horror From Padraig Reynolds 2012-07-27T01:22:52Z He very much knew about people like Stravinsky: He quoted passages from “Firebird Suite” or “Petrushka.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Stravinsky then invited Mr. Craft to contribute to the English-language libretto of the opera “The Rake’s Progress,” and in short order the two found each other indispensable. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z It followed a 2009 companion piece, "Re-Rite," that offered a similar digital immersion in the orchestra as it performs Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." Why Salonen's 'Universe of Sound: The Planets' L.A. stop was canceled 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Ravel’s “La Valse” and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” frame a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the formidable pianist Maria João Pires as soloist. Classical Music Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z History will probably decide that Igor Stravinsky was the most influential composer and also the greatest of the twentieth century thus far. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z After the war he extended his operatic appearances, singing the role of the auctioneer Sellem in the premiere at Venice of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in 1951 at the composer's express behest. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z Her solo dancing in the Stravinsky ballets was wretched, flicking lightly at steps that require a rigor she lost long ago. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z The first ICE program on Monday is all Stravinsky. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z It is only too bad he didn’t make the film in eye-popping colors to match the strident sounds of Stravinsky’s music. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z Rather than unleashing the monstrous sorcerer Kashchei, as Stravinsky does in “The Firebird,” Tcherepnin leaves him mostly asleep, under the Firebird’s spell. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z Igor Stravinsky offered a letter of recommendation for “this high-minded musician, this aristocrat among conductors.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Krohn’s final performance will be in George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” New York City Ballet Unveils Designers for Its Fall Fashion Gala 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on February 13, 2014, on page C6 of the with the headline: Young Talents Working With Those Comedians Stravinsky and Berlioz. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z The Act 1 music leaps, with what one can only describe as panache, from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony to Prokofiev, Górecki, Stravinsky and others. Tatyana – review 2013-02-03T00:05:42Z Chamber music will be well represented, with programs focusing on the music of the Machine Age, the circle of Eastern European expatriates in Paris and Stravinsky’s influence. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z “Rosbaud gave us a blueprint,” this ordinarily truculent Chicago Tribune critic wrote after hearing him lead Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z They let the words, set with punchy vitality by Stravinsky, do their work. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z Mr. Taruskin drew attention to traditional Slavic melodies that Stravinsky had embedded within “The Rite of Spring,” and how the composer himself had deliberately obscured the folk roots of his revolutionary ballet. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Stravinsky really was in Hollywood, and Hollywood knew it. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Many of Stravinsky’s celebrated later compositions are written in this style. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z THE kaleidoscopically majestic and mystical works of the French composer Olivier Messiaen reveal many influences: Debussy, Stravinsky, Balinese music, plainchant. CD Review: OLIVIER MESSIAEN: ?Visions de l?Amen? 2010-07-16T15:02:00Z Afterwards, in the late Prom, a sequence of Bach and austere late Stravinsky provided the perfect palate-cleanser. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z He started writing it in his teens, embracing Jelly Roll Morton's early jazz, standard songs and techniques adapted from Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z Stravinsky wasn’t shy about his thirst for jazz. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Taylor, clearly thinking in terms of a mass audience, describes Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," one of the composer's best-known works and a landmark of modernism, as unpopular. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Craft published other collaborations with Stravinsky, including diaries, conversations and commentary on music and other topics. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z George Balanchine had Stravinsky—acerbic, witty, rhythmically exciting. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z His Stravinsky breathed fire while also luxuriating in the winding tendrils of a flame. Review: The War in Ukraine Looms Over an Orchestra’s Debut 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Richard would work on Stravinsky for three or four weeks, then take a week off between chapters and write for Opus. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z This “Rite” is a reimagining of the original 1913 ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky, accompanied by the Stravinsky music, which famously scandalized Paris. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Rite of Spring’ at Kennedy Center is authentically Russian 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Within a year, he moved to Los Angeles to live with Stravinsky and his wife. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Composers at the beginning of the 20th century – primarily Stravinsky and Bartók – began to acknowledge the acoustic truth of the piano's percussive and resonant nature and re-envisage the concerto form. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z Their London season in celebration of the coronation was dominated by the electrifying dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, and those of following years brought the ballets with scores by Igor Stravinsky first seen in Paris. Summer readings: The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson 2011-08-16T11:53:06Z Fazil Say’s one-man piano recording of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” is also distinctive. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Offers New and Old 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Suggesting that you look again at Disney’s 1940 film does not mean we forgive the animators for turning Stravinsky’s primal Rite of Spring into Jurassic Park. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z The Collegiate Chorale sang well throughout, although the orchestra sometimes sounded muddy and could have played with more zest in “Mavra,” the one-act opera that Stravinsky considered one of his most important works. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z Each phrase is announced with the scrupulous cadences found in late Stravinsky. Getting down to the basics in Peter Brook's 'Battlefield' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The complex rhythmic structures that occur throughout its 35-minute length released a rhythmic freedom in Stravinsky's music, and for other composers too. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Stravinsky’s complete ballet music for “Pulcinella” ended the concert in a gesture meant to acknowledge the orchestra’s close ties to the Royal Danish Ballet and to the choreographer George Balanchine. Music Review: Danes Deliver Rare Works by a Native Son 2011-07-29T21:59:08Z Stravinsky “was very fond of what he called the Boston Boys,” Ms. Geller added. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z He got Stravinsky to emulate the pose of a piano, basically. A Photographer Who Likes Inspiration as a Roommate 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” begins, as so many Balanchine ballets do, with a tableau, while the music is already chugging away. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Picasso produced sets; Matisse and Coco Chanel created costumes; Stravinsky, Satie and Prokofiev wrote music, to name a few of the artists inspired by the vision of that company’s founder, Serge Diaghilev. Inside Art: Judaica, Ballets Russes Art and James Turrell Works 2013-01-10T23:30:00Z The two were isolated in Switzerland and working together on French translations of Stravinsky’s vocal works. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z For this memorial piece Stravinsky made a musical setting of Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” an urgent plea to his dying father to resist death and cling to life. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z The collection offers a rich variety of solo pieces, chamber works and concertos by Beethoven, Berio, Chopin, Mozart, Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and more — in probing, lucid, often exhilarating performances. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Auden and Chester Kallman based their libretto on 18th century William Hogarth etchings that had caught Stravinsky’s neo-Classical eye, but the opera is often updated. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z There would be more familiar fare before the night ended — Mozart, Gershwin, Stravinsky. San Diego Gets Its Answer to the Hollywood Bowl, Just in Time 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z I can't think of a biographer of Stravinsky who troubles to return the favour. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Still, Stravinsky remained for his three decades here a celebrity. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z By 12, she was competing in the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Through Music, Jen Shyu Explores the Unknown, Including Herself 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z This spring you can hear Balanchine’s ballets to Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, Symphony in Three Movements, “Danses Concertantes,” “Agon” and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, a late 12-tone work that seldom turns up in concert halls. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z It is reminiscent, in some ways, of the ending of Stravinsky’s other ballet from the same period, “Apollo.” Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z This modernist approach, shared by her lodestar and friend Stravinsky, was also a canny strategy for a woman in a man’s world. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z While the list of most-performed works of the Rattle era is still heavy with Brahms and Beethoven, 20th-century pieces by Stravinsky, Berg and Webern have also been among the most frequently heard works. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Static montages of abstract black-and-white imagery change rapidly while the sounds of Stravinsky’s score for the ballet “Les Noces” fill the darkened room. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z “In a nice, clichéd way, it’s very Russian,” Mr. Botstein said about Stravinsky’s arrangement of “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” which opened the program with the bass-baritone Keith Miller as soloist. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z One letter from Stravinsky to Delage expresses his “desire to come to your house to spend a few autumn days with you again”; it is signed “Forever, your Igor.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z But in Stravinsky’s chamber works, played at Alice Tully Hall in the evening, you could discern echoes of Mozart’s Classical clarity and economy, as well as his ribald humor. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z I left imagining what Mr. Fitch might make of all the most unstageable ballets, Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and Tchaikovsky’s original 1877 score of “Swan Lake” not least. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z Litton paraphrased Stravinsky: “To see Balanchine’s choreography is to hear music with one’s eyes.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky’s piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z Rimsky-Korsakov, teaching Stravinsky in private, oversaw rapid progress. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Stravinsky was there as well and went to dinner with Boulez afterward. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A few harmonic oddities, restrained for Stravinsky, enlivened the familiar tune. With new members in BSO, striving for a cohesive sound in season opener at Strathmore 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The purring tone he coaxed from the A string was the highlight of Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne,” in the gently flowing Serenata movement. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The library wrote that it “is considered by many to be the best recording ever of Stravinsky conducting his own work.” 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Stravinsky foresaw the real conflict of war and revolution, life or death confronted on a daily basis – the willingness to die for one's beliefs. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z One morning in 1971 I arrived at the door of the music building at Yale, on which someone had posted an index card with this simple news: “Igor Stravinsky died today.” The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z For this performance, the avowed influences will also include Stravinsky and Ives. Jazz Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:02:41Z Hodges and Morison performed an arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for two pianos and Pierre Boulez’s restless “Structures II” for their teachers and fellow students at Winchester, to bemused reactions. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z “Les Noces,” which tells the story of an arranged marriage, set to Stravinsky’s jagged, harrowing score, ends up looking plainly decorous. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z “In two weeks, we do the three Stravinsky ballets,” he said. Debating the Seattle Orchestra’s Foray With Sir Mix-A-Lot 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Stravinsky began composing this work in 1914, in the aftermath of “The Rite of Spring.” Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z The last one ended with Stravinsky conducting his “Symphony of Psalms.” What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z This should all make Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” a resonant choice for the troupe. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “I sat and listened to them, and it was very clear to me that it was by Stravinsky,” he recalled in a telephone interview. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z We think: Stravinsky and Ravel, it’s already modern music. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The venue was Dock 5, a nightclub at Union Market in the District, and the event was billed by Septime Webre’s Halcyon Stage as a “Stravinsky Rave: Rite of Spring Dance Party.” Review | Conductor plays ‘Rite of Spring’ at a club — and then berates the audience for acting like they’re at a club 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The second concert, “Third Stream Tangents,” on Thursday, has works by Stravinsky, Charles Mingus, David Sanford and other composers, the theme being music that draws from both contemporary classical and jazz traditions. Classical & Opera Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A quizzical prologue sets up two long sets of intricate variations in myriad styles, with echoes of Neo-Classical Stravinsky and ironic Shostakovich. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Fittingly, Stravinsky had the last word, in an exactingly performed, exuberant account of his ingenious Octet conducted by Mr. Heras-Casado. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z In 1947, Mr. Craft wrote a letter to Stravinsky that would set the course of his professional life. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z I wish Mr. Garland’s choreography engaged more deeply with its many-layered music, as least as rhythmically complex as Stravinsky. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The writing for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn is richly idiomatic, the neo-Classical style joyfully accessible without ever being pat — Stravinsky without the sarcasm. Review: Boston Symphony Chamber Players Balance Acoustics and Expression 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The manuscript is inscribed in Stravinsky’s hand: “Birthday choral tune by George Balanchine, harmonized by Igor Stravinsky, Hollywood, California, June 18, 1946.” Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z From then on Stravinsky went on working with choreographers and ballet companies for more than 50 years. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z The first half of this program offered two Stravinsky works not played that often in concert. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z With Stravinsky’s increasing presence in Western Europe in the 1910s came new circles of experimentation and influence. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z Stravinsky’s irregular rhythms give the march a stumbling quality. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z Mr. Craft, who also had a home in Manhattan, was alert throughout his career to accusations that as a young unknown, he had exploited Stravinsky. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z He earned the attention of his idol, Stravinsky, when that composer came as a guest to Harvard, where Shapero was a student. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Stravinsky seems never to have discussed any of these relationships, which somehow managed to remain completely private, with Mr. Craft. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Mr. Craft was an aspiring conductor when in 1948 he met Stravinsky, often regarded as the pre-eminent classical composer of the 20th century. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The Lithuanian conductor will appear at Walt Disney Concert Hall on March 1 to lead a Los Angeles Philharmonic program of music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Beethoven. L.A. Phil's Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts herself with aplomb 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z But what startled was its revolutionary quality, as though Stravinsky, in pushing at the limits of music, was also tapping into a mood of impending social convulsion at the time – 1911 – of its composition. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-04-25T22:15:00Z But what matters, he went on to explain, was that somewhere deep in Stravinsky’s consciousness “the basic metaphor contained in ‘Aida’ registered, stuck, and connected with the corresponding deep metaphor in ‘Oedipus Rex.’ When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z We now see Stravinsky and Debussy and Ravel and Bartok as part of the normal repertoire. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z "A good composer does not imitate," said Stravinsky, "he steals." London Sinfonietta/Collon ? review 2010-10-19T21:30:00Z The penultimate work on the program, the 1919 suite from Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” had the most to tell about the acoustics. ‘Porgy and Bess,’ a Spoleto Festival USA Homecoming 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z “Scherzo Fantastique,” his first piece to Stravinsky, is suspenseful and ebullient, with costumes and décor whose vivid colors and imagination make an immediately potent impression. Review: ‘Scherzo Fantastique’ Brims With Liberated Energy 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Stravinsky had never heard jazz but was inspired by sheet music brought back from the United States by Ansermet. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z At the same time I was learning the piano works of Schoenberg, and I was enthralled by Stravinsky’s late-period pieces that drew upon 12-tone techniques, especially “Requiem Canticles.” 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z An encounter with Stravinsky, who had heard his 1957 Requiem for Strings and taken the young composer out to lunch because he admired the piece so much, was one catalyst for his musical life. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z Or it’s simply a marvelously entertaining compilation of three linked yet unrelated ballets — “Emeralds,” “Rubies” and “Diamonds” — to wonderful music by Fauré, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Stravinsky breaks rules; he questions and quarrels, and yet finds a consensus that tips into transcendence. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Advertisement “Without me Stravinsky would not have taken the path he did,” Mr. Craft wrote in his 1993 biography, “Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.” Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stravinsky invents a sorcery of his own, one that will culminate in the “Rite,” just four years later. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z But that aura faded during the 1950s; to many it seemed a relic by the time it was revived for the company’s 1972 Stravinsky festival. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z Pablo Heras-Casado opened his Mostly Mozart program at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday evening with the Stravinsky and made a strong impression with the incisiveness of his reading and with his graceful conducting gestures. Music Review: Gil Shaham and Pablo Heras-Casado at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-04T20:23:00Z Music critics fawned, the Metropolitan Opera held downtown recitals, and a new generation of listeners fell for Stravinsky. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The evening concluded with Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” which is one of his most satisfying ballets even when the cast isn’t quite up to its challenges. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z Stravinsky was inspired to write astonishing scores for Balanchine, like “Orpheus” and “Apollo.” ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z “Duo Concertant,” a 1972 pas de deux set to Stravinsky, begins as two dancers listen intently to a pianist and a violinist. Robert Fairchild Says Goodbye to City Ballet With Balanchine and Roses 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Even before the affair, Stravinsky’s marriage has lost its bloom. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z The big event of New York City Ballet’s spring season, the Stravinsky Festival, packed and publicized as it was, somehow wasn’t the most memorable. A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z At the time I was becoming a big Stravinsky fan. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Stravinsky would have been proud to have written it. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z That scene shows Mr. Nelson at his considerable best, as does another in which the party members prepare a special nocturnal treat for the ancient Sergey, led by his ex-wife, Vera Stravinsky. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z The Sonata for Violin and Double Bass by Arthur Lourié, a neglected Russian composer who served as Stravinsky’s personal assistant and spokesman, bore the impression of Stravinsky’s style. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Focuses on Works in France and U.S. 2013-08-19T22:00:34Z Mr. Bringuier’s program, which ended with Stravinsky’s Suite from “The Firebird,” would have benefited from at least one recent piece to show us how he grapples with truly contemporary music. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z “It was Stravinsky’s style, and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. The music was just really great. Stravinsky was absolutely the best.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z British musicologist Stephen Walsh charged in a 2006 biography of Stravinsky that Mr. Craft’s accounts were “riddled with bias, error, supposition and falsehood.” Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Balanchine at times works often as much against Stravinsky as with him. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z In his book he quotes Delage’s letter describing Stravinsky “in the arms of that horrible fiend Diaghilev.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z In “Agon,” the masterful 1957 collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky, a performance of the first pas de trois — with India Bradley, Taylor Stanley and Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara — was mesmerizing in its tautness. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Whether Stravinsky intended the piece to provide a programmatic illustration of the war is inconclusive; yet the unyielding rhythm of jackboots came crunching through in the final movement. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z The program included three short works in the first half, by Stravinsky, Jolivet and Haydn, followed by a dramatic interpretation of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" in the orchestration by Ravel. A brilliant 'Pictures' at the symphony 2012-02-10T18:00:05Z The riot at the premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913 at the newly opened Théâtre Champs Elysées is part of the folklore of modernism. The Rest Is Noise festival: the third instalment – Paris 2013-02-08T16:32:00Z That balance has been delicately achieved once again in a showcase that includes selections from Stravinsky's "The Firebird," Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade," and the aforementioned Copland favorite. 'Celebrate Asia!' mixes Stravinsky, Shankar at Benaroya Hall 2011-01-13T21:10:12Z Stravinsky objected to composers who, as he put it, took the opera house into the church. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z Poor Stravinsky worked with Balanchine for decades, but he still had to die before he was toasted onstage. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z The score was neither Stravinsky’s original “Firebird” nor one of the suites, but something put together by Daniel Eppel using, it seemed, the 1910 version of the score. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z First on that program was Balanchine’s “Apollo,” created in 1928 for the Ballets Russes, and the beginning of the choreographer’s long, famous creative partnership with Stravinsky. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z There has been much debate about the Russian-ness of Stravinsky, who lived and worked away from his native country for most of his life. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z In one of its best-known projects, aimed at making classical music more popular among young people, Mr. Rattle staged a performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" with 250 children from Berlin inner-city schools. ArtsBeat: Simon Rattle to Leave Berlin Philharmonic in 2018 2013-01-10T17:09:50Z Essentially the production is about ballet, starting with a section that evokes classroom exercises performed with unaffected purity and concluding with two vibrant selections to Stravinsky that show the company in full dancing force. Desert Sun No Shortage Of Inspiration 2012-02-19T05:00:15Z He had a major breakthrough in the early 1930s, inspired by Stravinsky’s Neo-Classical works. Gotham Chamber Opera Opens Season 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Ollé first stepped into an opera house when he was 18 — not as a spectator, but as an extra in a Barcelona production of “The Soldier’s Tale,” by Igor Stravinsky. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z There’s also a wide range of distinguished music — the composers of the last three weeks have included Glinka, Chopin, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Stravinsky, , Hindemith, Ellington, Shostakovich and Thomas Adès. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z Mr. Gilbert proved an exciting Stravinsky conductor in the season-opening program, which ended with a powerful “Rite of Spring.” | Classical: Stravinsky, With Puppets 2013-06-21T19:46:29Z I wish I’d told him that hearing him conduct the Philharmonic in “The Rite of Spring” in 1966, with Stravinsky in the audience, was a formative experience of my early musical life. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Harnick also became an accomplished opera translator, providing English librettos for classical works like Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” and Bizet’s “Carmen.” Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z I got the chance to get into areas of music that I had always enjoyed listening to: some of the things I wrote came from the influence of Stravinsky. Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z His work with Walter led to more than 30 recordings with Stravinsky. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement She also maintained that two recordings billed as conducted or “supervised” by Stravinsky had actually been conducted by Mr. Craft. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stravinsky spoke of his admiration of Nijinska’s version in the book “Memories and Commentaries”: “Her acrobatic ‘Renard’ coincided with my ideas, as well as with the real — not realistic — décors.” Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z During Serge Koussevitzky’s tenure, which lasted from 1924 to 1949, the Boston Symphony was among the world’s most important forces for new music, commissioning important works by Prokofiev, Bartók, Ravel, Stravinsky and various American composers. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “It’s probably a problem that Stravinsky didn’t have,” he said. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet Stravinsky was still around in the 1960s, writing serial works that set the field of contemporary music abuzz. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Back inside, the program of Elgar, Stravinsky and Bartok also came off smoothly, for the most part. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z "Then," Stravinsky told his biographer, "when the curtain opened on the group of knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas jumping up and down, the storm broke." The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z If Stravinsky had sexual or romantic relationships with men, we would and should care. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Shepherd’s vexed relationship with Jerrold, whom he alternately champions and then spurns for listening to the Germans, was partly inspired by Stravinsky’s relationship with his critics, Mr. Stace said. Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z In the spring, Pacific Northwest Ballet is doing a double bill of Stravinsky’s Apollo and Orff’s Carmina Burana and Atlanta Ballet is performing pieces set to the music of Johnny Cash. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z “Stravinsky used to refer to him as ‘my son,’ which didn’t make life easy for him, I don’t think,” Mr. Boykan said with a laugh. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z And apparently Dushkin weighed in as well — his riffs on Stravinsky’s composition and arrangements were worked on and into the final piece. Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The contrast she showed on Tuesday between the outer and inner sections of Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” was thrilling; nothing about the outer movements prepared you for her piercing pathos in Aria II. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z Delage sometimes closes his letters to Stravinsky with “kisses and hugs.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Wit, charm, brilliance, rapture, personal crisis and a few strokes of fate are all wrapped up together in an extraordinary parcel, wonderfully right for Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto. Critic?s Notebook: A Galaxy of Ballet Stars Spinning in a Flickering Universe 2011-06-05T22:25:36Z Stravinsky’s “Rite,” though, makes far more demands on its audience. Review | Conductor plays ‘Rite of Spring’ at a club — and then berates the audience for acting like they’re at a club 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, whose revolutionary works “The Firebird,” “Petrushka” and “The Rite of Spring” were all written before 1915, learned about modern forms of composition from Mr. Craft. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Audiences at the next pair of festival concerts will hear a world premiere, Michael Brown's Dialogue for Violin and Cello, plus Bloch's Piano Quintet No. 1 and Stravinsky's Suite Italienne. 13 top entertainment picks for the week of Aug. 19-25, 2012 2012-08-15T21:04:08Z Bartok would outdo Stravinsky in his use of asymmetrical meter. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z An early Stravinsky work that was performed just once, in 1909, and then disappeared during the Russian Revolution will finally receive its second performance on Friday. Second-Ever Concert of Stravinsky’s Lost ‘Funeral Song’ to Stream Free 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Stravinsky took inspiration from Sophocles; Honegger, from Joan of Arc. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z His score for “Architects of Time” is worth additional listens: It mines and manipulates Stravinsky’s music — sometimes in sprightly, shimmering ways — to create a new-old dancing sound. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z He and Stravinsky were friends for decades; Balanchine applied himself repeatedly to Stravinsky’s music between the 1920s and the early ’80s. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “Pulcinella” was also a modernist’s look back — but to the graceful energy of early 18th-century Italian music, which Stravinsky transposed into airy yet tender arrangements. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The festival’s grand finale presented Stravinsky’s mythological epics “Persephone” and “Oedipus Rex.” Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Focuses on Works in France and U.S. 2013-08-19T22:00:34Z On both nights the ensemble — ninth-best, according to Gramophone — played works by Haydn and Stravinsky at Avery Fisher Hall, under the inspired leadership of its music director and one of its founders, Ivan Fischer. Music Review: Serious ?Rite,? Sultry Tango and Skillful Solos 2011-01-28T23:11:00Z Stravinsky used the word “symphonies” in the title in the ancient sense of the word, meaning sonorities that sound together. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z Her father was a violinist in the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra, her mother an artist and her godfather Igor Stravinsky. Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Like its music it’s full of Russian history, but — like Balanchine’s ballets to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky — it expands those layers so that we breathe them too. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at New York City Center 2012-10-22T04:10:05Z Being ignored is much more wounding than being jeered, and Stravinsky faced the possibility of a career-ending fiasco. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z The reader who needs to be told that Benjamin Britten was a "mid-20th-century English composer" is likely to be baffled by the information that Scriabin's has affinities with Stravinsky's Firebird. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z Since the winter season, she has made debuts in a wide range of Balanchine ballets — “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” “Swan Lake,” “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and the lead female in “Agon.” What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Color and dramatic character were notable aspects of Bringuier’s Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. Lionel Bringuier is back, and the L.A. Phil welcomes one of its own 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The scene wasn’t unfamiliar; a week earlier, tickets for a lavish multidisciplinary event built around two Stravinsky ballets, were in similarly high demand. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘The Planets’ Builds on Holst’s Work 2013-07-07T21:26:23Z Begun in his teens, and partly-performed only once in his lifetime, it took in Jelly Roll Morton, Broadway standards, gospel, blues, and references to Schoenberg, Bartok and Stravinsky. Take Five 2012: John Fordham's year in jazz 2012-12-18T14:09:36Z Kirchner’s music draws elements from his teacher Schoenberg, his mentor Stravinsky, and other 20th-century modernists, fashioned into his own rigorous, expressive voice. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Zuill Bailey, Natasha Paremski, Leon Kirchner and More 2014-01-29T17:18:51Z Then he turned to his own fantasies based on Stravinsky, who happened to dislike the pipe organ. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z He forged close alliances with older Stravinsky supporters like Copland and the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, as well as Leonard Bernstein, still in his 20s. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Stravinsky composed and conducted for City Ballet; it regularly presents commissioned scores. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The orchestra and dancers, choreographed by the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky, continued but it was impossible to hear the music above what Stravinsky described as a "terrific uproar". Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z During the years when “The Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring” were shaking up Paris, Stravinsky was swapping ideas with his friend Debussy, who was 20 years older. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z The jazz rendition makes few departures from Stravinsky’s score; in most respects it’s an electrifying and remarkably close transcription. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z He was also known for his breathtaking musical ecumenicalism: a champion both of early music and 20th-century fare, he performed the work of composers as diverse as Monteverdi, Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z Toward the end of Stravinsky’s life, when the composer had become too infirm, or too uninterested, to produce much work, Mr. Craft, his critics charged, was regularly serving as his literary, and even musical, puppeteer. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z He befriended Igor Stravinsky and Ezra Pound, and lived with his wife, Boski, for more than 10 years above Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. Books of The Times: ?Hedy?s Folly,? by Richard Rhodes - Review 2011-12-13T22:23:15Z “Whether you play a piece by Stravinsky or Mozart, it will be more noise and will get the same response.” Will Jarring Music Drive Drug Users From a German Train Station? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Almost every ballet that Balanchine created to Stravinsky’s music, “improves the score,” said Andrew Litton, City Ballet’s music director. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The invading modernist forces were led by Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and once again foreign styles had to be absorbed into French music. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z Stravinsky stole like mad, and it wasn't theft. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s late, great score can further serve as vivid reminder of just how prodigiously Brook’s wisdom has grown from “Marat-Sade” to “Battlefield.” The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Seeking an East Coast clientele, the Milwaukee brewery ran ads that broadcast “The night Beethoven outdrew the Beatles” and asked “Who’s afraid of Igor Stravinsky?” Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, taken with Balanchine’s melody, harmonized the song. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Stravinsky finished “Zvezdoliki” in 1912 and dedicated it to Debussy, who described the music as “the harmony of the eternal spheres.” Music Review: Philharmonic Takes on Stravinsky at Avery Fisher 2010-04-29T20:49:00Z For Stravinsky, there was just too much bombast in Wagner. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z It was that 1919 suite that Stravinsky conducted at his Hollywood Bowl debut in 1940, shortly after moving to the West Hollywood hills above Sunset Boulevard. Joshua Bell's crossovers go nowhere in L.A. Phil's Bowl opener 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The disorientation of Stravinsky’s 1945 “Symphony in Three Movements” was a little more profound. Review | NSO and Noseda show off souvenirs of an abandoned Asia tour 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Stravinsky had been like a Beethoven among us. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z After a week celebrating The Rite of Spring, in which Stravinsky plundered ancient archetypes and shaped them into radical novelty, these are questions to think about. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z With Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballets, we reach peaks of modernist intensity that will forever remain historic. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The Rite of Spring is irresistible precisely because of the way Stravinsky constructed it – the twists and turns of the music through time, the movement of sound through the air. Tom Service on Saw ? The Ride 2010-05-12T21:00:00Z This was a reading of the lithe, refreshingly unpompous variety, along the lines familiar from conductors like Pierre Boulez, Igor Markevitch and Stravinsky himself, rather than the weightier manner of a Leonard Bernstein. Stravinsky, other Moderns at symphony 2011-09-30T20:42:03Z She’s having a marvelous season: On Saturday she went on to dance both “Duo Concertant” and Terpsichore in “Apollo” at the matinee, and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” on the evening program. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z We were completely on the same wavelength about music; he loves Stravinsky and Satie, but also Bowie, Nina Simone, Iggy Pop. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z She took ballet lovers into the studio with Mr. Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky as they worked with the dancers on “Agon.” Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet Bernstein’s Stravinsky discography is actually frustratingly small; the Sony set contains only six discs. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z It was such an extraordinary time Stravinsky was living in – a complete rupturing of the arts. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z Originally composed for the Ensemble Modern, and played in Paris by the Ensemble Intercontemporain , it’s an often frenzied, powerful piece in which the influences of Gershwin, Bernstein, Miles Davis and Stravinsky are clear. Dance Review: Echoing the Tones of Francis Bacon 2011-07-11T22:23:00Z In her book, “And Music at the Close,” published later that year, Ms. Libman contended that Mr. Craft was responsible for at least some of the lines attributed to Stravinsky in their published dialogues. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z But modern listeners, given to polite ovations, are tame compared with their vociferous early 20th-century predecessors, who booed and hissed during the premiere of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Music Review: ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-06-09T21:17:20Z Muti's replacement was gracious enough to take up two of the three works Muti was planning to conduct, including Stravinsky's Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" and the Brahms concerto. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z Henze, schooled in traditional German composition but also influenced by Stravinsky, jazz and atonality, is an avowed Marxist. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z Merging classical music with pop culture is reminiscent of early 20th century cartoons, notably Walt's Disney's "Fantasia," which featured music by Bach, Schubert and Stravinsky. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Stravinsky even had Tchaikovsky in mind as the ballet’s central character as he composed his view of fate’s singling out an artist and barring him from ordinary mortal joy. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z Beethoven and Stravinsky were considered aurally cacophonous in their day. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z After an evening of rarities, the program concluded with the more familiar Stravinsky of the “Symphony of Psalms.” Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z The influence of Bartók, Stravinsky and, above all, Prokofiev in primitivist-constructivist mode is too overt. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-27T09:16:41Z In later years, Stravinsky made a show of loathing Wagner. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z There is no Stravinsky street or theater or park or fountain, no Stravinsky anything. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z I acclimated to Philharmonic Hall, or so I thought, when I attended the orchestra’s Stravinsky Festival in the summer of 1966. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Unlike Stravinsky, Rossini allows his characters moments of real feeling expressed in music that is sympathetic, though not blind, toward their human weaknesses. Music Review: ‘Mavra’ and ‘Scala di Seta,’ at Kaye Playhouse 2012-12-21T23:20:16Z The Stravinsky and this work could each have taken up a week of rehearsals. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z Just after the New Year Mr. Levine is scheduled to conduct a pair of charged 20th-century dramas, Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” James Levine?s Health at Issue in Plans for Boston Season 2010-04-11T18:40:00Z The libretto, devised by Stravinsky with Nicholas Roerich, the ballet’s set and costume designer, was printed in the program for the original performance, in 1913, and what it says didn’t just control Nijinsky’s ballet. Mark Morris’s Dark Spring 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z There was a confluence of great concertos by great composers over eight years between 1931 and 1939, from Barber, Britten, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Bartok, Stravinsky ... Violin star Gil Shaham to bring Mozart concerto to Seattle 2012-10-17T18:53:05Z One also has to forget that he was somewhat anachronistic, when you think what else was being written at the time — Schoenberg, Stravinsky, etc. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He had the piece sounding almost as radical as the Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Stravinsky liked a neutral sound to come back at him when he was composing. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z Exemplary musicality was particularly welcome on Tuesday’s program, which, in honor of Balanchine’s birthday, celebrated his landmark collaborations with Igor Stravinsky. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The pivotal chapter in “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions” is entitled “Chernomor to Kashchey: Harmonic Sorcery”; it drastically revises the standard narrative of harmonic developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “The Cage” is bookended by George Balanchine’s jubilant Stravinsky ballet “Rubies” and Robbins’s “Andantino,” a 1981 pas de deux set to Tchaikovsky. Dance Review: City Ballet Offers ‘The Cage’ and ‘Rubies’ at Koch Theater 2012-10-04T21:06:04Z Berners was known for, among other things, dyeing doves in colorful shades and holding elegant dinners with the likes of Gertrude Stein, Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dali and H.G. Four gimmick-free memoirs 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The Beethoven concerto, at 45 minutes the most substantial work, sat alone before intermission; after the pause came Chen Yi’s brief but meaty and varied “Duo Ye” for chamber orchestra, then Stravinsky’s 25-minute “Pulcinella” Suite. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Their interpretation of Stravinsky's Ragtime shared a bill, despite telegraphed objections from both Stravinsky and Diaghilev, with Wesley Ruggles's unremembered Love. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z The opening party for Man Ray’s first Shakespearean Equations exhibition included among its guests Igor Stravinsky, Aldous Huxley, Luis Bunuel and Jean Renoir, plus assorted Americans of significant stature. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Even before Stravinsky himself converted to Schoenberg’s 12-tone method of composition, Fine began writing serial music. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Friday's program, which was the same that had opened the orchestra’s season in Berlin last week, was Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Stravinsky’s “Firebird.” Europe concert diary: Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at London Proms 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Considering all this, Stravinsky’s “Madrid” — written for mechanical pianola but presented in a two-pianos version by Stravinsky’s son Soulima — was perhaps too blithe and evocative to represent the evening’s thesis. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Focuses on Works in France and U.S. 2013-08-19T22:00:34Z To those who find Stravinsky’s music arid, his “Scherzo Fantastique” comes as a surprise. Review: ‘Scherzo Fantastique’ Brims With Liberated Energy 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Her father was a gifted studio musician for 20th Century Fox; her mother was an artist; her godfather was Igor Stravinsky. Eve Babitz, a Glamour Girl Who Refused to Be Dull 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Chanel is the aggressor in the short-lived affair of which little is known, that began in 1920, seven years after she attended the world premiere of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z The sounds of nature, from chirping jungle birds to the surging currents of the river, are effectively captured in Mr. Catán’s orchestral writing, evocative of Debussy and Stravinsky. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Ravel’s fairy tales became a collector’s cabinet of beautiful noises; in Stravinsky’s more extroverted fantasy the ensemble still exalted sonic splendor over narrative tension. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But that piece, however amazing on the surface, seemed unfathomable, until I finally heard it performed live, twice, in 1966, both times with Bernstein conducting the Philharmonic — my summer of Stravinsky. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Stormy, dissonant and elemental, the orchestral “Amériques” shows Varèse’s debt to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his quick absorption of his adopted home in its steely contours, clattering percussion and wailing sirens. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z You could not miss the striking allusions to Stravinsky in Mr. Boulez’s splendid score. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z The cash-strapped poet had agreed to the project to fund a proposed trip to Hollywood where he was due to collaborate with the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, one of his many admirers, on an opera. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z Ms. Rana, at 26 one of the finest pianists of the new generation, is at her best on this recording, which includes solo piano transcriptions of works by Ravel and Stravinsky. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Composed amid the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Stravinsky asks for small forces: just seven instrumentalists backing three actors and a dancer. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z Stravinsky Inspires a Festival to Get It Together, Fast The Trinity Choir, the resident professional ensemble at Trinity Church on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, is not unfamiliar with the notion of big undertakings. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z There’s a big pas de deux in it that could have come out of any middle-period Stravinsky ballet. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The aging Stravinsky was conducting, but it was Mr. McClure who demanded several retakes. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z An early passage sounded a bit like “Blue Moon”; a double-bass duet churned like Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z Biographers of Britten go on comparing him favourably with Stravinsky, even in the period of Agon and the Requiem Canticles. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z The Rite of Spring: brutal, edgy and primal, Stravinsky's masterpiece remains a cornerstone of contemporary music. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z In the meantime, there was something of a preview in the three recent livestreams — contemporary-minded programs for the Musica Viva series, and a deceptively traditional one of works by Brahms, Stravinsky and Haydn. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z I am surely not alone in, every time I hear Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” remembering the dinosaurs. How I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse Blachly’s “revolution,” to judge from the text on the website of his Experiential Orchestra, involves people being intoxicated by the brilliance of Stravinsky’s music and caught up in a frenzied bacchanal of spontaneous dancing. Review | Conductor plays ‘Rite of Spring’ at a club — and then berates the audience for acting like they’re at a club 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Walsh, the author of a biography of Stravinsky, details the French composer’s personal struggles alongside his musical breakthroughs, portraying him as a harbinger of 20th-century modernism. New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Stravinsky once said — again, I’m going on memory here — something like: “I just heard Lenny Bernstein conduct my ‘Rite of Spring.’ Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z Rimsky, Stravinsky told Mr. Craft, was “shockingly shallow in his artistic aims.” Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Stravinsky soon found a house on North Wetherly Drive above the Sunset Strip, the first property he owned and where the Stravinskys remained for 23 years before moving next door. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z There was even some ballet: Woetzel asked Lil Buck, who has trained with a ballet teacher, to perform a version of the George Balanchine piece "Agon," to Stravinsky. Review: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma, 'jookin" together 2013-04-04T00:59:08Z Morlot doesn't anticipate future programs always being as intense as the Gershwin/Stravinsky/Varèse lineup. Morlot celebrates rhythm in next concert 2011-09-22T21:27:04Z Throughout a career that lasted, incredibly, into his 90s, he sang a wide variety of repertory stretching from musical comedy to Monteverdi and Stravinsky. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z Mr. Craft persuaded Stravinsky to conduct without payment. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z On Friday evening the Metropolitan Opera revived Jonathan Miller’s stylish and moving production of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” with James Levine conducting a cast led by a radiant Paul Appleby in the lead role. Review: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z When she was a child, her godfather, Igor Stravinsky, often slipped her glasses of Scotch. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Bernstein was rehearsing a youth orchestra in Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "I find that Mozart and Stravinsky complement each other very well," Robertson says. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z Also on the program are concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, his son C. P. E. Bach and Stravinsky, as well as the premiere of a Chaconne credited to the entire orchestra. Classical: Britten Serenade in the Park 2013-07-26T20:08:34Z That summer, Stravinsky made his Hollywood Bowl debut conducting the "Firebird" Suite — the same work that opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Bowl season last week. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z As the dance historian David Vaughan said when I asked him about Mr. Craft’s accuracy, “One always thought that he was so close to Stravinsky that he would know what he was writing.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Stravinsky, by comparison, is a chatterbox, but as the film’s director, Mr. Kounen, admitted his movie is about aesthetics and mood, egos and beauty, and two actors who are meant to embody artistic creation. Mads Mikkelsen, Sex Symbol With an Unearthly Twist 2010-06-05T02:07:00Z The story is based on a 1735 series of engravings by William Hogarth, and Stravinsky’s score has the etched-in-acid precision of that medium as well as classical mastery of line and proportion. Review: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Justin Peck’s new dance, “Pulcinella Variations,” which the New York City Ballet performs through Thursday on its first of two programs, channels more than the Italian commedia dell’arte that helped inspire Stravinsky’s music. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z As he is enjoying explaining, it was the Fab Four, and Lennon in particular, who set him on a path that would lead to over 100 films about everyone from Maria Callas to Igor Stravinsky. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z Igor Stravinsky has died in New York at the age of 88. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z If you wonder how Boulez met Stravinsky, thank a Thomson party at the Chelsea Hotel. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Stravinsky said just play the notes, play what’s written and don’t exaggerate. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s opera has not been entirely neglected here. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z One who later walked that bridge was Stravinsky, my No. 6. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Stravinsky used elements from multiple Tchaikovsky scores; this finale dwells on the desolate melody of the song “None but the lonely heart.” How Balanchine Turns a Fairy Story Into Tragedy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Stravinsky, in old age, credited the Ballets Russes with "the development of choreographic art in the entire world". Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z Auden moved on to much better things, and wrote the incomparable libretto to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Hyped as the next young sensation, he had just signed a record contract, and his first major release was of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” with the L.A. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z To stick this Russian pops potboiler between Stravinsky and Brahms made no musical sense whatsoever. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z And you get some sense of the dancer’s leaping lightness as shadows of first dancing feet, then bodies in motion, are projected, to the clashing, soaring music of Stravinsky, on three floor-to-high-ceiling boards. Ballets Russes: Emotional and Passionate 2010-10-11T11:20:00Z This year's festival embraces an exceptional range of work, with Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen opening events with a Stravinsky double bill. This week's new dance 2013-05-11T05:00:25Z Einstein, the man who, just as much as Picasso or Stravinsky, ushered in modernism, knew this only too well. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z A century later, Igor Stravinsky still judged the quartets “contemporary”, and thought they always would be. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z That concert, and others featuring the Berlin Philharmonic playing a complete Schumann symphony cycle, music by Stravinsky and new work, were announced last month. Carnegie Hall Plans South Africa Festival in 2014-15 2014-01-29T16:31:50Z Mr. Morlot also offers a lean, crisp and tightly coiled reading of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” that forgoes much of the usual brutish force but brims with a lither kind of erotic menace. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Phil debut at the Bowl conducting Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” with what The Times at the time felt had the angularity Stravinsky intended but not the rich tonal beauty or exact pitch. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Now it’s grown into something bigger, but not anywhere as charming or as quirky: Farley’s ballet, created in honor of City Ballet’s current Stravinsky Festival. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Also on the program: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor and Stravinsky's "Capriccio" for Piano and Orchestra. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z Here Stravinsky shows how to write a really clever novelty piece. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z Stravinsky envisioned a stage the size of two armchairs. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z Hank likes to listen to Stravinsky or "Ride of the Valkyries" while barreling through the house like a charging warrior. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z He adds: “Iyer could be heard in dialogue not only with jazz or Indian musicians but also with Mozart and Stravinsky.” Essential Arts & Culture: About Julius Caesar, the Ojai Music Festival, inequity and tower design 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The music Mr. Robertson and his orchestra offered at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening — works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Kaija Saariaho — was inherently colorful, and there were scattered moments of sharply etched virtuosity. Music Review: St. Louis Symphony Led by David Robertson at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-11T22:03:42Z Ignoring the original scenario of “Rite of Spring,” as he did in 2004, wasn’t an unusual choice; matching Stravinsky with salsa dancing was. Dance Review: Emanuel Gat and Ballet Gen?ve at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-29T22:36:31Z Second: that both Stravinsky and Nijinsky told the “Sacre” story poorly. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The Gewandhaus Orchestra will play composers with ties to Boston, including Stravinsky, Copland, Carter and Bernstein, while the Boston Symphony will perform works by Leipzig-based masters like Bach, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Boston-Leipzig Exchange: Andris Nelsons’ Orchestras Collaborate 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z My reactions have been mixed, at best, to his accounts of that Bruckner symphony and other works including Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and Debussy’s “La Mer.” The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There will also be a chamber arrangement of Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 and the suite from Stravinsky’s “Soldier’s Tale.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z The artist began a series of projects for public spaces beginning in the 1970s, including the "Stravinsky Fountain" outside Paris' Georges Pompidou Centre in 1983. Niki de Saint Phalle shoots to kill at Paris retrospective 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Balanchine’s 1982 solo choreographed to the Stravinsky viola solo of that name. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z A full orchestra is indicated, but a small string section and a small chorus are typically all that are wanted, since most of Stravinsky’s lines are for solo or chamber-sized forces. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “Stravinsky conducted ‘Agon,’ and at intermission I would see him and Mr. Balanchine toasting each other,” she said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Stravinsky composed his Concerto in D in 1946 for the Basel Chamber Orchestra’s 20th anniversary. Music Review: Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-24T00:17:49Z When the curtain rises on “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” it’s as if the five stationary dancers — four men and one woman — were taking a moment to match their heartbeats to the music. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z Rites of spring: Dudamel demonstrated with a volcanic "Rite of Spring" that his Stravinsky has grown as much as his Beethoven. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Most important, they began performing choral works by Stravinsky, with whom they enjoyed a close collaborative relationship that lasted until Stravinsky’s death in 1971. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z By the time he graduated in 1949, however, the country had fallen under Stalinism, a grip that included severe cultural repression, especially of modern composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s the most contained response to Stravinsky’s “Rite” I’ve ever seen. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z Diangienda is now on his way to London to become an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, an accolade previously granted to the likes of Mendelssohn, Rossini, Wagner, Brahms and Stravinsky. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z The composer Igor Stravinsky, however, had conceived the Apollo of this ballet as a raw youth, still finding his feet. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Rossini, meanwhile, was represented by the William Tell Overture, and Stravinsky by The Firebird. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z In the New York Herald-Tribune, Howard Barnes went even further: "The Lady Vanishes is a product of individual imagination and artistry quite as much as a Cézanne canvas or a Stravinsky score." My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z The Stravinsky is jazzy and rhythmical, while the Jolivet is beautiful and modernistic. Roberto Abbado becomes familiar guest at Seattle Symphony 2012-02-09T21:58:10Z Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, completed in 1945 and introduced by the Philharmonic the next year, was a steely, splashy remix of the composer’s styles and methods. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z In Paris, a protest is planned to coincide with the verdict on Igor Stravinsky Square, near the Centre Pompidou modern art museum. Protests, verdict loom for Russia's jailed punks 2012-08-17T11:16:04Z The Stravinsky is a lot of fun: transcribed ballet music. Joshua Bell to play ‘tasty’ menu at Benaroya Feb. 5 2014-01-31T21:18:57Z Filtering the influence of Bach’s and Mendelssohn’s classic oratorios through the innovations of Wagner, Mahler and Stravinsky, “Haggadah,” like the Seder itself, both shows and tells: the Exodus story is juxtaposed with explanations of symbols. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z The Tatooine desert in “Star Wars” is a dead ringer for the steppes of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Compared with Scriabin or the young , Stravinsky was musically Russian in a very old-fashioned way, but the conditions of his contracted labor demanded it. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Stravinsky goes digital Topics: , , Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, centennial, , Animation, visual music, , , , This article originally appeared on The performance that almost incited the well-heeled of Paris to a ravenous riot is celebrating its centennial. Stravinsky goes digital 2013-05-30T20:32:00Z Stravinsky’s score is much more than that: a barnyard fable told as a cantata, with the voices chanting or uttering in a style that Stravinsky developed further in his better-known work “Les Noces.” Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z In a sense Stravinsky was the first truly "modern" composer. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z Mr. Craft had bought a plot for himself there long ago, after Stravinsky was interred on the island. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z He’s like Stravinsky, because every decade or so they change their stable of sounds. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Such people would probably find Scarlatti and Stravinsky boring as well. A God Among Vegetables 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Skin color is as much a part of “Agon” as its Stravinsky score. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The programme for each consisted of two stage works, and the first – a chamber concert juxtaposing Renard with The Soldier's Tale – showed Gergiev's Stravinsky at its finest. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2012-05-16T17:13:13Z With Mr. Wordsworth’s conducting, the Stravinsky score sounded as bold and stark as ever. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z Despite his enduring celebrity, Stravinsky’s protean output and ceaseless, shrewd self-reinventions can be difficult to capture. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z They ended the Stravinsky group with an arrangement of the playful Scherzo from “The Firebird.” Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z For Balanchine, who was assigned to stage it, Stravinsky’s score was an epiphany. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It is intentional that his first weeks feature not just Stravinsky, Beethoven and Bruckner, but also three premieres: Ms. Fure’s and others by the young composer Conrad Tao and the Dutch eminence Louis Andriessen. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The final concert marked a return to established classics, with Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's Firebird both featured. LA Phil/Dudamel – review 2013-03-18T12:43:41Z Ten years before the Stravinsky Festival, McBride, then 18, went with Balanchine and a small group of City Ballet dancers to Hamburg to perform in honor of Stravinsky’s 80th birthday. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Stravinsky apparently hated how the cartoon cut and represented his ballet. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Igor Stravinsky was the first president, succeeded on his death by Leonard Bernstein. Lina Lalandi 2012-07-08T17:30:07Z And until relatively recently that was the general verdict on the later Stravinsky. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he founded the Chamber Art Society, a New York ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music, including that of Stravinsky. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stravinsky himself described Nijinsky's faux-primitive, peasant-garbed corps de ballet as looking like "a group of knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas jumping up and down", but he also said Nijinsky's choreography was all the piece needed. A century on, Stravinsky's 'Rite' still summons the caveman 2013-05-26T10:43:44Z This year’s Bard festival, “Stravinsky and His World,” which began this past weekend and continues on Friday, could relax, as it were, and simply celebrate him. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z By such means, Mr. Ratmansky keeps suggesting in “Jeu de cartes” that the ground is shifting under the dancers’ feet — or rather that Stravinsky’s music is. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Stravinsky tried to cover his tracks in his revolutionary "Rite of Spring" by placing Russian folk melodies in the context of new rhythms, but scholars have found him out. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z He is said to have never missed a Stravinsky rehearsal. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The Stravinsky staging involves several circus performers, which is forcing the action a few more feet from the backdrop. In ‘Golem,’ the Troupe 1927 Shares a Stage With a Claymation Co-Star 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s links to Beethoven are tenuous; his influences were elsewhere. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z A few weeks earlier, there’s a chance to hear Mr. Gilbert’s replacement as music director, Jaap van Zweden, who takes the Dallas Symphony to the hillside for works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, among others. 10 Spring and Summer Classical Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, at once grateful and resentful of Chanel’s hospitality, drags Catherine and their four children to Chanel’s home, where there are servants and a studio with a grand piano. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z Next weekend, OMF finishes the season with music by Schubert, Stravinsky, Mozart and Ravel. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-08-24T21:57:04Z On Tuesday, City Ballet begins a two-week celebration of the 50th anniversary of the festival, performing 14 ballets by Balanchine, Robbins and Justin Peck, to Stravinsky’s music. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z After Stravinsky’s Cantata began, the women gathered around the bed and raised their arms — palms facing out, thumbs extended — until their hands met overhead. Dance Review: Juilliard Presents Pina Bausch’s ‘Wind von West’ 2013-12-16T22:28:36Z Hooks are few and the accompaniment is spare, with the thrum of guitar interrupted by occasional spasms of percussion and woodwinds from Henry’s son, Levon, who merges the sounds of klezmer, New Orleans and Stravinsky. Review: Joe Henry weighs risks and rewards of love 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The programs earlier in the week began with Cage's early ballet score, "The Seasons," before moving on to audience favorites: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's ballet, "Pulcinella." San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z I also much enjoyed the fire and pettiness of Mr. Glover’s Stravinsky. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z Even in bed, or on the piano bench on which Chanel straddles Stravinsky, mind games are being played. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z Stravinsky, who was just then working on a new version of the piece, replied that he would like to conduct its premiere at Mr. Craft’s concert the next year. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z "Like the 'Rite of Spring' by Stravinsky and a lot of other great compositions primarily scored for ballet." Czech-U.S. Internet connection: Zbynek Mateju-Raiford Rogers' 'Still Life' 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z In Im Raum, the memories are musical ones, echoes of Stravinsky and Bruckner, embedded in music that is constantly changing as the players move around. Schnebel: String Quartets 2010-07-22T21:40:00Z Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the music in 1928, saw it as an allegory of the artist’s destiny, an idea that has resonated with choreographers ever since. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Hank likes to listen to Stravinsky or “Ride of the Valkyries” while barreling through the house like a charging warrior. ?Wildwood,? a Book by the Decemberists? Colin Meloy 2011-10-11T17:28:57Z Taking advantage of Rubinstein’s flair and virtuosity, Stravinsky made the arrangements difficult. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z “Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship,” by Robert Craft. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Organized by the new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird, the festival takes as its starting point Stravinsky’s provocative statement that “music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all.” Music Review: Notes, Melodies and, Here, Politics 2011-02-19T00:40:21Z Next to open, on May 30, is a revival of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” in a staging by Jonathan Miller that is older but more stylish than many at the house. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Also on the program are Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and Stravinsky’s “Orpheus.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z His arrangements were particularly revelatory in two of the evening’s most famous works: Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The collaborators fought with Stravinsky, tradition and, better still, with one another. 'A Rite' powerfully reveals fragility of Stravinsky's work 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z As a child he was prodigiously talented and was not only interested in the likes of Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Copland, but he also worked with them. Michael Tilson Thomas: 'The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops' 2012-05-25T12:04:46Z The digital season will begin with three weeklong explorations of major works by the company’s founding choreographer George Balanchine, “Prodigal Son,” “Theme and Variations” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” New York City Ballet Dancers to Step Back Onstage 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z A Bard concert on Aug. 14 will reconstruct these epic programs, bringing together composers from Palestrina and Monteverdi to Stravinsky and Hindemith. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z It has drawn composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg, writers like Thomas Mann and Joan Didion, architects like Frank Gehry and artists like David Hockney. A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z It features eight shorts, each pairing compositions by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven and others with mind-bending visual representations. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The music concludes with not Stravinsky’s usual brisk anticlimax but with a more prolonged suggestion of chaos, a quotation from the trio’s own “Physical Cities.” Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z I find that Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballets made after Stravinsky’s death in 1971 are even better than the more famous ones he made during Stravinsky’s lifetime. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z She plays the popular Bruch concerto, but only on Wednesday; the complete Stravinsky ballet fills in on Thursday. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Also scheduled: Bournonville’s Pas de Six and Tarantella from the ballet “Napoli” and the return of Balanchine’s brilliant and still-provocative “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” Baryshnikov, Diavolo, BodyTraffic and more: L.A.'s dance scene gears up for a breakout season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Stravinsky completed his last major piece, “Requiem Canticles,” at 84. Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z Nono took a musical and ideological hard line with composers who didn't fit his vision of musical progress, whether Henze or Stravinsky. A guide to Luigi Nono's music 2012-11-26T15:50:00Z In renouncing not only Russia but all “extra-musical” content, Stravinsky was hardly alone. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z The bird sometimes lands on Ms. Peretyatko’s hand, to be held aloft as the soprano sings Stravinsky’s elegiac, ornamented melodic flights. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z Antheil, attempting to get ahead in the cutthroat music scene that Stravinsky dominated, was “determined to endow the piece with modernist credibility, it seems.” There Is Nothing Quite Like Ezra Pound’s Opera 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Here are some of the first scores I ever bought—Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and “Déserts,” by Edgard Varèse. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As it happens, I don't agree with him; I think much wonderful music was written by Stravinsky, Schoenberg and their successors. My hero Nikolai Medtner 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z Stravinsky's Threni, an unsparing yet spare setting of words from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, occupies a hallowed place in the composer's output. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z The Philharmonic, sounding poised throughout the concert, was especially evocative in Stravinsky’s humid third tableau. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Casella befriended Ravel as a fellow student at the Paris Conservatory during the late 1890s and later promoted Mahler, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Operas in Contrast: ‘Macbeth’ and ‘La Donna Serpente’ 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Beck plans to begin with Three Movements from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” a piece the composer arranged for Arthur Rubinstein in 1921. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z The Ravinia Festival once offered "composer's evenings" on which such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland presented their own music and, sometimes, works by others. Krzysztof Penderecki's enticing program at Grant Park 2011-07-17T07:00:00Z The program opened with a quasi-improvised, 50-minute piece called “Rituals,” in which the ensemble riffed on Stravinsky themes, including from “The Rite of Spring.” The Man Who Gives Form to the Sprawling Salzburg Festival 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z And the Stravinsky, stripped of its full orchestra, was more grounded and ritualistic than I’ve ever heard it. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But there was also the music that orchestral players in London were just getting to know at the time, the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mahler, Schoenberg, later Stravinsky. Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z He was electrified, bewildered — up until then, Stravinsky had been his idea of rock ’n’ roll — and a little scared that everyone was about to get in trouble. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z But “Persephone,” which the Seattle Symphony is performing at two sold-out shows at Benaroya Hall on April 26 and 28, might be the Stravinsky work that most proves him wrong about music speaking for itself. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z To my mind, Stravinsky's artistic achievement in this work is equal to any of the 20th century's scientific achievements. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z His last album, 2011’s “Legacy” featured a piece by his son, Anthony, as well as his own compositions based on themes by classical composers Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and Giacomo Puccini. Gerald Wilson, bandleader, composer, dies He also conducted the works of more modern composers like Stravinsky, Copland and Tippett. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Yes, Stravinsky really was not only in Hollywood but also part of Hollywood. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z “His virtuosity is worthy of the gods,” Igor Stravinsky said. Green Book: the true story behind the Oscar-buzzed road trip drama 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The following week, he will shepherd the American premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Catamorphosis,” in a program that also includes Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” The Philharmonic Plans Its Return to Geffen Hall, With Fanfare 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z A correspondence ensued, and Mr. Craft first met Stravinsky in March 1948 at a hotel in Washington to discuss an upcoming concert. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z That work is set to Stravinsky, and I was definitely making a nod to Balanchine and where I come from, dance-wise. A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Works by Gershwin, Stravinsky and Varèse, 7:30 p.m. Morlot celebrates rhythm in next concert 2011-09-22T21:27:04Z Bogart's company acts as a guide through time and Stravinsky. 'A Rite' powerfully reveals fragility of Stravinsky's work 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z In his Music for Piano and the crystalline Partita for Woodwind Quintet, Fine demonstrates an elegant mastery of Stravinsky’s spry counterpoint, balanced with his own strong sense of melody. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Created in 1948, this setting of Stravinsky's titular score evokes an unsettling, striking sense of period glamour through its Parisian chic costumes and sharp choreography. This week's new dance 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z The “Infernal Dance” from Stravinsky’s “Firebird” sounds blazing and demonic in this fierce, commanding performance. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Ours is the town Stravinsky lived in the longest; the L.A. Lionel Bringuier is back, and the L.A. Phil welcomes one of its own 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez composed that work as a memorial to Stravinsky, who was represented by his quirky song cycle “Pribaoutki” and his “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z And Susanna Malkki will lead Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress”; she is one of five female conductors scheduled to appear, the most in a season in Met history. The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z As Stravinsky goes, this is unusually cheerful music, and both Mr. Serkin and the Philharmonic played it with the warmth and suppleness you expect in Beethoven but hear too rarely in performances of Stravinsky. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z Its three-week festival, beginning on Wednesday, is called The Russian Stravinsky, even though it will include works composed in every country Stravinsky inhabited. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z He's influenced a lot by Stravinsky, who is probably my idol, and he has in turn greatly influenced me in his directness, bold colours and harmonic language. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z Stravinsky followed Debussy’s work and learned from it. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z Let me defer to a rather authoritative voice, that of Stravinsky. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z In his early years Kirchner was swept away by the music of Bartok and Stravinsky. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z The Stravinsky production, seen in the third of its five outings, forms the second half of a double bill, coming after a Sellars production of Tchaikovsky’s shortish opera “Iolanta.” Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z After two such dense and demanding pieces it was a wonder the orchestra had sufficient energy to commence its survey of Stravinsky's complete ballet scores. BBC Philharmonic/Storgards/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-03T16:54:28Z The Waugh brothers toiled away at the Hôtel Welcome in Villefranche, along with Igor Stravinsky, Serge Diaghilev and Jean Cocteau, who was hooked on opium. It Was ‘Chanel’s Riviera’ in the 1930s. Then Came World War II. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Stravinsky, a contrapuntal master himself, spoke of his fascination with Georgian singing, whose rich polyphonic tradition dates to the pagan era. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z Stravinsky uses old dance forms and so on, but so did Alban Berg. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z The boy who went to concerts with Charles Ives and heard the works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Debussy when they were new, has gone. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z This year I'll be joining a pianist from Moscow for a painted performance of Stravinsky's exquisite piano version of his Firebird ballet. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z It was, it seems, the wilful ugliness and lumpenness of Nijinsky's evocation of Russian prehistory that was really shocking to audiences – the "knock-kneed Lolitas" Stravinsky wrote of. The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z Due to its ritualistic subject matter, aAs the chosen girl dances herself to death, Stravinsky found a musical language that broke all the barriers in terms of what an orchestra can sound like. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z And Bruch, who titled one of those pieces a “Rumänische Melodie,” had an interest in Central European folk music shared by Stravinsky in the zesty suite he arranged from his “Soldier’s Tale.” NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z Stravinsky wrote that film music should bear the same relationship to the film drama as "somebody's piano playing in my living-room has to the book I am reading". Prom 38: BBC Concert Orchestra/Lockhart ? review 2011-08-14T12:18:14Z In this case, Stravinsky’s influences were Russian folk tunes and motifs, revealed here in a beautiful and effective presentation that was almost like a musical pageant. Seattle Symphony gets thunderous applause performing a piece that caused a riot years ago 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Yip pushed for better hours and started building up their repertoire with basics like Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and, she said, “lots of Stravinsky, because I’m a big fan.” A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z He nicely captured the lavish atmosphere and the quirky rhythmic character of Stravinsky’s early score. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z And if newer music by the likes of Sibelius and Stravinsky pushed the Franck aside — although not brand-new music, which American orchestras have played less of over time — the past also struck back. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He also recorded demanding works by Igor Stravinsky, including “The Rite of Spring” and “The Firebird,” as well as classical Indian music. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Bartok, Stravinsky and other composers came to perform; Schoenberg spoke on his “Variations,” with Rosbaud giving examples, and also sent in thoughts on “Brahms the Progressive.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra often plays without a conductor, as it did here in the Stravinsky and Haydn works. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z Hearing the Stravinsky on this side of Lincoln Center Plaza was a treat. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads Philharmonic in Bach and Mozart 2012-06-07T21:47:01Z Nor does he relate that, according to Stravinsky, its disastrous first night caused Diaghilev another breakdown. Books of The Times: The Protean Master of the Ballets Russes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z But one section of the dance is unmistakably his, a solo set to a saxophone melody for Shorter that is reminiscent of the opening of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It is also hard to imagine a conductor today recording 106 discs with only a handful devoted to contemporary music and, of that, only a single Stravinsky work, the “Firebird” Suite. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z He later recalled getting used to “the whistling, ranting and raging” with which audiences would greet his Hindemith, Stravinsky and Schoenberg with the Mainz Symphony in Germany. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The first thing Stravinsky would do was to set himself limits in his work. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z Fine met Boulanger when she visited Cambridge, Mass., in 1939 and followed her back to France to study in her composition class, absorbing rigorous lessons in counterpoint and harmony and engaging with Stravinsky’s music. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z At one point Ms. Courvoisier plays a bit of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z Pauline Kael said it was the most important cultural event since Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Bernardo Bertolucci: the brilliant last emperor of highbrow cinema 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z You do hear him responding to the changing compositional language of, say, Stravinsky, and to jazz and what he hears in America. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Stravinsky said he couldn't hear the music for all the "Battle of Britten" sentiment. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z For me, his work stands with Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Ellington and Stravinsky in achieving that rare fusion of heart and mind. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z That message can still scare us, and perhaps more so in Berg's miniature than in the big beats of Stravinsky. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z Nijinsky's "anti-ballet" involved inelegant jumping, stamping, limping and squatting and, most scandalously, the pointing inwards of the dancers' feet – Stravinsky, much later, remembered the curtain rising "to rows of knock-kneed Lolitas". The Rest Is Noise festival: the third instalment – Paris 2013-02-08T16:32:00Z Far from sounding as if it belongs to the classical tradition, however, Prokofiev's Concerto is firmly rooted in the urban sounds of hip-hop, albeit with live orchestra and classical references to composers such as Stravinsky. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z Stravinsky, especially his Neo-Classical period, is a special focus this summer. Music Review: Showcasing the Viola in Updated Mozart 2011-08-03T22:13:31Z In a program of works by Prokofiev, Stravinsky and the underperformed American George Walker, the National Symphony and Noseda highlighted three inventive, forward-looking composers with Romantic roots. Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Ratmansky, who has handled a number of Stravinsky scores now, catches his busy humor, his metric intricacy, his rapid changes of subject. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z “Monumentum” is already austere, but its formal grace evokes — as does Stravinsky’s music — much older traditions of classicism. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z So despite the "new goth" tag, she's been listening to Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, rather than the Sisters of Mercy. Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvres 2011-01-13T22:19:01Z There is wild, primordial stomping, Stravinsky on steroids. It's nice to have L.A. Phil 'family' like Yuja Wang, Salonen 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z By being both showier and more traditional than Stravinsky, the dance becomes more dated than the music. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Here, Stravinsky’s opera “The Nightingale” is performed, along with shorter Stravinsky works, bound together by pan-Asian puppetry, spectacle, singing, dancing and, reportedly, 20,000 gallons of water. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z All returns as it was before, and Stravinsky brings back the opening march. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z Composer Igor Stravinsky called him “the dirtiest man I have ever liked.” Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In 1957, Balanchine choreographed “Agon,” set to Stravinsky and featuring a central pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and a white ballerina, Diana Adams. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The title of Mr. Gaines’s “Sum Stravinsky,” choreographed to that composer’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto, is a pun: “sum” for “some” but also “sum” for “addition.” Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z Stravinsky dominated, most obviously in the merciless barrage of 5/4 time in “Mars,” and the bristling bitonality of “Mercury.” Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The intricate technique that Torke used to create the work comes indisputably from the “mechanistic” Reich tradition, and Torke’s great love of Stravinsky and of classic funk is in there, too. The Sheer Joy of Listening to American Minimalism 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In 1912 Delage was living with Stravinsky, his wife and his children in Switzerland when Diaghilev asked Stravinsky to come to Budapest for a performance of “The Firebird.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z While Stravinsky was loud and proud about his heterosexual affairs, and was immersed in gay artistic circles in Paris, there has never before been any talk about gay behavior of his own. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z In 2007 he guest conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert that included music by Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Berlin Philharmonic names Kirill Petrenko as new chief conductor 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Craft contends first that Stravinsky’s creative influence over the epochal 1913 ballet “The Rite of Spring,” particularly its choreography, was far greater than has been assumed. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Its classicism showed, as Stravinsky wrote in his “An Autobiography,” “the triumph of rule over the arbitrary” and “the perfect expression of the Apollonian principle.” Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Igor Stravinsky, who was preparing to collaborate with Thomas on an opera, wrote an admiring letter to Adam: International Review with the heading “The Opera That Might Have Been.” A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Inspired by Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” the show now explores issues of relationships between the individual and the community. Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The second program, all Balanchine ballets set to Stravinsky, featured a weak link too: “Duo Concertant.” At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z There are hazy effusions of brass; little thickets of rattling, shivering percussion; and whooshing, glistening strings that were a textural link to the Ives, as well as to Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” which came after intermission. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z After Stravinsky’s death in 1971, at 88, he was a writer, lecturer, conductor, public intellectual and keeper of the Stravinskian flame. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stravinsky spoke and I put the words together. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z She added, “Somehow I feel that if Stravinsky had had an out-and-out affair with Maurice Delage, I would have known it.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z “Frida” enjoys a healthy helping of Weill, Bernstein and Sondheim, with a little Stravinsky, Wagner and Tchaikovsky gleefully thrown in. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z In the past 15 years, however, Prokofiev, Mozart, Stravinsky and Bach have headed the field. In praise of ? the Proms online archive 2010-07-07T23:05:00Z Besides "Primary," Leacock had a hand in the documentaries "A Stravinsky Portrait" and "Monterey Pop." Cinema verite pioneer Leacock dies in Paris at 89 2011-03-24T06:48:08Z How to surf the Stravinsky wave: Paul White in Meryl Tankard’s The Oracle: ‘at once heroic and abject’. The Oracle; Erhebung; Mayerling – review 2013-06-08T23:05:19Z “Good artists borrow,” Igor Stravinsky is supposed to have said, “great ones steal.” Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas’s incisive approach ideally suited Stravinsky’s guarded effusions, and the orchestra improbably carried it through on a soggy evening. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler at Tanglewood 2010-07-18T21:49:00Z I’ve often wondered how taken aback Corelli, Bach, Schubert, Wagner, Stravinsky and other composers would be by the alien visions he married to their scores in mysterious but uplifting harmony. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The jagged rhythms of “The Rite of Spring” and the breezy propulsion of “Petrouchka” fused with the lucidity and poise of Stravinsky’s Neo-Classical works to striking effect in Mr. Gilbert’s adrenalized account. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z This year’s festival, devoted to Stravinsky, starts on Aug. 9. Music Review: ‘Oresteia’ Is Revived as Prelude to Bard Music Festival 2013-07-29T21:21:44Z That festival ended with Stravinsky conducting his “Symphony of Psalms.” Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z Arthur and I were dancing in Balanchine’s “Agon,” with music by Igor Stravinsky, the last ballet on the program. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z “The Ballets Russes and that circle was a furnace of gossip, and many, many people have published biographies and memoirs who were there at that time, after Diaghilev and Stravinsky were dead.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z As the orchestra wailed away at Stravinsky — it appeared that a cellist broke a string at one point — he smiled. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Teresa Reichlen is the exception, taking different dramatic colors from the Stravinsky music. Review: Balanchine, the Storyteller: Frisson Is in the Details 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In fact, after the cheers for the Sibelius performance started to die down, Salonen turned to the audience and noted that we were probably wondering where Stravinsky was. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Despite a few goofy off notes, the second half, set to Stravinsky, is delightful. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z On Wednesday evening at the David H. Koch Theater, “Violin Concerto” started City Ballet’s latest tribute to the collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky this fall season. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z The final work, Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” is one of the world’s great ballets. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z And the broader mission of the center, to address a public not limited to a taste for Bach, Stravinsky and “The Nutcracker,” had expanded. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z I’m not sure what’s more clichéd at this point — choreographic takes on that Stravinsky score or the inevitable critical quips that follow. The Week Ahead: July 3 ? 9 2011-07-01T18:34:09Z That ballet was one of the flood of new works made by Balanchine for the Stravinsky Festival of 1972. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z And in between came the heavyweight: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z Wang’s “motoric energy,” he writes, “all but set a Frankenstein orchestra in motion, and her sheer élan provided motivation” for a work of music that was ambitiously framed by compositions from Stravinsky and Janácek. Essential Arts & Culture: Ojai's new musical direction, a bangin' Bartók, an innovative arts patron gets her due 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The “Rite,” Bernstein’s signature piece, kept turning up, even on one of his Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts, in 1958, which opened with Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, followed by the Stravinsky. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z On the music front, an evening of sacred music by Stravinsky in 2008 was the first major musical production. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z Stravinsky’s trilogy for the Ballets Russes, including “The Rite of Spring,” reissued recently? The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z But this last program of the season is the most ambitious: an account of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” filmed on location across the orchestra’s hometown, Manchester, England. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Oberfelder has taken the piece a long distance from Stravinsky’s simple conception. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z The music is based on an acrostic poem the choreographer George Balanchine wrote in 1946 as a birthday present for the composer Igor Stravinsky. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Later that night concertgoers can head across West 65th Street to the Kaplan Penthouse, where ICE will play works by Bach, Stravinsky, Carter, Schnittke and others as part of A Little Night Music. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z The piece — the first premiered by Stravinsky after becoming a U.S. citizen — is a bricolage of aggressive outbursts, almost minimalist repetition and a kind of alienated cinematic glamour. Review | NSO and Noseda show off souvenirs of an abandoned Asia tour 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Other visitors to the studio — Matisse, Stravinsky, Sartre — appear in sketches. Art in Review: ?IN GIACOMETTI?S STUDIO ? AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT? 2010-12-09T23:21:00Z In the orchestral writing there are hints of the composers who influenced Lutoslawski, especially Stravinsky, Bartok and Varèse. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z The concert will include works by Ives, Purcell, Stravinsky and Tippett. ArtsBeat: Met Opera Concerts Set For Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-13T21:51:38Z Sunday’s triple bill includes “Concerto Barocco,” “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and “The Four Temperaments.” Dance Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:07:30Z The careful programming made clear both how much Stravinsky owed these Russian models — how much he was a product of his time — and how he pushed past them. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z Stravinsky worked the way composers have always worked, basing their scores directly or indirectly on someone else's music. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Isolated moments hinted at more dangerous entertainment: the dark cloud of a chord near the end of Ravel’s “Beauty and the Beast” was ravishingly ominous, and the punctuations of Stravinsky’s “Infernal Dance” detonated with force. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z You could do exactly the same thing with Stravinsky – more famous than Schoenberg – and Schoenberg – more revolutionary than Stravinsky – and set it in Los Angeles, where they both lived, but apparently never crossed paths. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He is, perhaps, a bit like some fine composers, including Hindemith and Stravinsky, who borrowed and reconfigured gestures and ideas from atonal or serial composers without ever subscribing to a musical ideology. Review | The new David Hockney exhibition shows why he was such an art-world rebel 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Totenberg, a teacher and virtuoso who performed as a soloist with major orchestras and worked with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Rubinstein, died in 2012 at the age of 101. Roman Totenberg’s Stolen Stradivarius Is Found After 35 Years 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Set to Stravinsky’s vibrantly rhythmic “Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra,” “Rubies” deploys a principal couple and a solo woman as the leaders of the pack. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z With a cast of almost 40 dancers and a complex musical score by Stravinsky, it is a heavy lift for many American ballet companies. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In spring 2015, the slot was taken by Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress.” Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Recalling the works – Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and Stravinsky's choral-orchestral masterpiece, Canticum Sacrum – transports him back to his childhood, a place of energy and enthusiasm. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z As he watches the creative process of his friends Stravinsky and Balanchine, he becomes inspired to begin composing again. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z “He dressed it in a ratty old skirt from ‘The Firebird’ and draped it over the barre, with a sign that said: Stravinsky Festival dancer,” Ashley said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The passionate discussion began during the first few bars of the music, as derisive laughter rose from the seats, and soon grew into an uproar that sent Stravinsky fleeing the hall in disgust. Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z The Scarlatti is purely decorative, the Stravinsky lightweight and never remotely dramatic, while the dark heart of La Valse is obscured in swathes of prettification. Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka; Brahms: Paganini Variations; Ravel: La Valse; Scarlatti: Two Sonatas 2010-06-24T21:12:00Z Stravinsky set the same text as the final movement of “Symphony of Psalms”; Schütz’s version seems just as fresh and startling. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The first time they saw the music to Moose the Mooche – before that Stravinsky and Alban Berg was the hardest thing. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z This programme also takes in Twyla Tharp's Known By Heart pas de deux plus Balanchine's Duo Concertant, set to music by Stravinsky. This week's new dance 2011-01-29T00:06:32Z She ended with Three Movements from “Petroushka” by Stravinsky, which the composer himself transcribed for piano from the orchestral version — and then was unable to play because they were too difficult for his own technique. Khatia Buniatishvili: a recital of skill, sensitivity 2013-03-07T19:03:24Z “On your right, the home of Igor Stravinsky, the composer of ‘The Rite of Spring.’ Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s two children from his first marriage were somewhat estranged from their father and later carried on a long legal battle with Vera Stravinsky, who died in 1982. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z There are moments in the works when you wonder: 'Could this composer have become another Shostakovich or Stravinsky?' Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The program opened and closed with Tovey conducting early Stravinsky — the short "Fireworks" and the second of the composer's "Firebird" Suites. Joshua Bell's crossovers go nowhere in L.A. Phil's Bowl opener 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z “Mass,” a rebuke to Mozart Mass settings Stravinsky acquired and played through in Los Angeles, seemingly placed greater value on musical ingenuity than on textual integrity. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z But this was Ms. Ha’s show, a peppy account of Stravinsky’s classic score, though one that might have been better balanced among the musicians. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z “Stravinsky or Schoenberg I could understand,” he said, searching for influences considered more respectable in academic circles, “but Rachmaninoff?” Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Its sound is unmistakable, given Stravinsky’s unusual — yet so logical — scoring. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z A reader who cannot immediately identify with a handful of canonical names — Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Bartok and, of course, Boulez — may feel left out of the conversation. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “State of Darkness,” set to Stravinsky’s sweeping, propulsive “Rite of Spring,” dates to 1988. Seven Dance Stars Take On a Daring ‘Rite of Spring’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Here it is a cello concerto equivalent to the “Sacrificial Dance” from Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Who knows what the future is, but it’s not a slide reading “Stravinsky.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert 2013-05-26T21:47:04Z The thoughtful pianist Daniil Trifonov explores the music of Russia’s so-called “silver age” of the early 20th century on a fascinating album that offers various solo works and concertos by Scriabin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I found my eye drifting from the screen to the orchestra, so richly scored and physical are these ballets from a white-hot moment of Stravinsky’s career. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Nor is this, quite frankly, as entertaining a read as the author’s Stravinsky biography. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The New World Symphony alumni distinguished themselves in Thomas’s honor with a performance of compositions by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky. Review | Kennedy Center Honors: It’s a boogie wonderland 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z He listened to Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Bartók; looked at art from Egyptian sculpture to Picasso with the same intensity; and he remembered! Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z The program ended with George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” which gleams like a perfectly cut jewel with sparkling touches of Russian folk dance and jazzy accents. Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z “Stravinsky saw what I could do for him,” he said. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Indeed, ending this demanding program, her playing was as clean as at the start, despite the extreme virtuosity required in the Stravinsky. Khatia Buniatishvili: a recital of skill, sensitivity 2013-03-07T19:03:24Z The dances have a bang-bang force, ironing over any difficulties in Stravinsky’s score, which here becomes as surefire in its effectiveness as the soundtrack of a hit Broadway musical. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z The evening, with all ballets set to Stravinsky, will include Russell's staging of George Balanchine's "Agon" and a revival of Stowell's "Firebird." PNB turns 40 with Mark Morris premiere and more 2012-03-07T22:38:04Z But, Bing said, next season the company was presenting the new Stravinsky opera “The Rake’s Progress,” so “we shall see then what the public reaction will be.” An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The clarinetist Todd Palmer, dressed like a Cossack, played Stravinsky’s rhapsodic Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet as interludes between the dramatic works. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z It offered much light but little heat, and at the end of the day, Stephen Walsh, a noted Stravinsky biographer, bemoaned the lack of argumentativeness. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” drops a needle on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and stands before a Picasso painting, defining works of an age in which physics folded space and time into space-time. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z It uses the idea of musical shorthand, like Stravinsky's The Flood and Requiem Canticles. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z They started, ambitiously, with a hundred instrumentalists and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Most tantalizing is an alleged affair between Stravinsky and Diaghilev, which would cast an entirely new light on their important and productive collaboration, and on their many quarrels. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Fights broke out, the police were called, and Stravinsky sank into sulky despondence. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z If you look at “Threni,” for example, by Stravinsky, there is some sort of transition to where Boulez picks it up, and I think those links in music history are fascinating and important. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It is confident playing that makes for fun listening — I particularly liked the mellow “Spring Rounds” — but for sheer strangeness and shock, Stravinsky’s original keeps outdoing its descendants. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z And ever since then, Stravinsky strikes my heart like a bolt of lightning.” Wendy Whelan Is Inspired By Stravinsky and Chanel No. 19 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Lieberson, who studied with the modernists Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen, wrote early works in the 12-tone idiom and was also influenced by late Stravinsky, Minimalism, jazz and musical theater. ?Peter Lieberson: 'Red Garuda,' Rilke Songs, Bagatelles, Piano Quintet? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z Had Stravinsky had his way, we might also be celebrating his movie soundtracks; but, arriving in Hollywood at the end of the second world war, he couldn't get a break. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z Set to Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for String Orchestra, “The Cage” remains a favorite of the dancers at New York City Ballet, for which Robbins created it. Don’t Look Pretty! Staging a Feral Robbins Ballet at the Bolshoi 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The two men met for the first time in 1948, and before long Mr. Craft had moved into Stravinsky’s Los Angeles home. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z An agent provocateur for serial music before graduating and a master of hardball polemics, he caused even anxious luminaries like the aging Stravinsky to feel the need to earn his approval. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z As the first few bars of the orchestral work The Rite of Spring – Le Sacré du Printemps – by the young, little-known Russian composer Igor Stravinsky sounded, there was a disturbance in the audience. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z Stravinsky was in the audience for the first program, which was conducted by Leonard Bernstein and ended with “The Rite of Spring.” When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The program also offers Mr. Adams’s sequel to his Chamber Symphony, “Son of Chamber Symphony,” inspired by B-movie music, and Stravinsky’s tart, bracing Concerto for Piano and Winds, with the dynamic pianist Jeremy Denk. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z Mr. van Zweden was brought to the Philharmonic in part because of his dynamic approach to the staples of the repertory, including this 1913 Stravinsky shocker. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The young Oberlin musicians also demonstrated their prowess in Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite, giving a stirring, vividly shaped rendition that featured exemplary playing from the woodwinds. Music Review: Oberlin Conservatory Plays at DiMenna Center and Carnegie 2013-01-21T22:22:40Z Even Stravinsky was not safe from condemnation for the “insufferable” faults and “purposeless automatism” of his Neoclassical works. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The rest of the week highlights Balanchine and the composers who inspired him most, with programs devoted exclusively to his Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky ballets. Dance Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, a fan of the “Grosse Fuge,” described it as an “absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever.” Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z But she has the advantage of being Stravinsky’s most trusted creative adviser. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z Now the company is adding other fare, chiefly to music by Russian composers — principally Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z The concert, the season’s last in the Meet the Music! series for ages 6 and older, will feature Chamber Music Society players performing Debussy, Stravinsky, Britten and more. Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Ruling over 48 children from the school, Kowroski used her height to her advantage — making the tiny dancers seem even tinier as they marched and pranced through Stravinsky’s score. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Stravinsky visited soon after, and Fine shepherded him around campus. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s largely Robbins exploring the possibilities of two men and a woman, à la Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballet “Agon,” but in his own playful way, wittily visualizing the character of the music. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Buoyed, perhaps, by its recent performances of Stravinsky’s intense “Rite of Spring,” Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra attacked Respighi’s bombastic “Fountains of Rome” and even more bombastic “Pines of Rome” with gusto. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, With Itzhak Perlman 2012-09-28T21:31:09Z Sunday's Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra concert spotlights two Russian composers — Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich — and a young local violinist who will solo on Shostakovich's work of protest against a brutal regime. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z From a growling, chirping start the music swelled to intimations of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” finally arriving at vibrant rhythmic figures à la Bernstein furled throughout the room via loudspeakers. Music Review: A Night of Acoustic and Electronic Exploits 2011-01-29T00:05:24Z Mr. Rattle’s talent for color should come out in an otherwise tepid program featuring Rachmaninov’s “Symphonic Dances” and the closing scenes from Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Govrin was thinking about leaving City Ballet when the Stravinsky Festival was being planned. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Born exactly a decade apart, Scriabin and Stravinsky were the two composers who in their very different ways led 20th-century Russian music towards modernism. Prom 41: LSO/Gergiev 2010-08-17T10:57:00Z The work, “Funeral Song,” was written in 1908, when Stravinsky was 26, to commemorate the death of his teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Long-Lost Stravinsky Work Rediscovered 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It goes further than Stravinsky did, into a crystal labyrinth as difficult to follow and as dazzling as the latest discoveries of the Large Hadron Collider. Leonard Lauder's $1bn gift to Met gives new lease of life to cubism 2013-04-10T15:08:08Z He quotes Igor Stravinsky describing Marcel Proust as “pale as a midafternoon moon.” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z Mr. Varnava’s work was featured as part of a triple bill of Stravinsky ballets — all by Russian choreographers — at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, a house of moderate size. For Russians Tired of ‘Swan Lake,’ a Contemporary Alternative 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Craft’s long relationship with Stravinsky gives him an aura of infallibility. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z I’d been a Stravinsky fan since my early teens, when I listened over and over to the recording he conducted of his “Firebird.” When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z A look at composer-pianists, it will offer pieces and arrangements by Kreisler, Stravinsky, Rodgers and Gershwin. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z But the Stravinsky didn’t sell me either; Lintu labored to find a convincing through line, and the orchestra was only intermittently better. Review | A strong pianist tries, and fails, to save an evening 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The Saturday and Sunday matinees highlight collaborations between Balanchine and Stravinsky, while the performances on Saturday evening and Wednesday juxtapose Balanchine with Peck in two slightly different mixes. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But then, in the postwar, palette-cleansing neoclassicism of composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, perhaps Rachmaninov saw new possibilities. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z At 50 minutes, this seldom-produced Stravinsky piece was the longest segment of “The Nightingale and Other Short Fables,” Mr. Lepage’s acclaimed staging of diverse Stravinsky dramatic works, choruses and songs, all involving stories about animals. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z In works of Schumann, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, Trifonov was magisterial, creative and unruffled. Review | Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s star continues to rise 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Nor did Mr. Andriessen’s Symphony for Open Strings represent his most familiar mature style, a spiky mix of Stravinsky, Minimalism, jazz and rock. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z Its real subject, or at any rate the most trenchant theme to emerge from behind its abstractions and intangibles, is the one suggested by the title, borrowed from Stravinsky’s book of études for young pianists. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Both works are set to celebrated Stravinsky scores. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Rattle made a big statement in his first season, inviting 250 Berlin schoolchildren from different backgrounds to dance Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” with the Philharmonic at Berlin’s Treptow Arena. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Their most intriguing program is this contrast between John Luther Adams’s climate meditation “The Vespers of the Blessed Earth,” featuring the choral group the Crossing, and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Both events were part of Stravinsky Too, a festival subseries devoted to Stravinsky’s music. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z So how to slot Stravinsky, who spent the first 28 years of his life in Russia, the next 29 in Switzerland and France, and the last 32 in America? Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z When the first movement really gets going, it sounds like music trying to settle into something resembling a Neo-Classical Stravinsky serenade. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z It is comforting to those who rank him supreme to assume that God said, “Let there be Stravinsky,” and there was Stravinsky, and he was good. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z Amid the rippling piano runs and fanciful violin writing, this music pulses with rigorous counterpoint and brittle harmonic writing that recall Stravinsky. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z But over time, accusations began to percolate that several books attributed jointly to Mr. Craft and Stravinsky, and billed as dialogues between them, were more Craft than Stravinsky. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Because the quadruple bill of his works “Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths — Movements in Music” came over the weekend to New York City Center, the mind flew to Stravinsky. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The In Series is closing out its season with a daring double bill of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” and Viktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis.” Review | The In Series aims to make ‘Atlantis’ great again 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Tuesday provided 21st-century choreography, with three world premieres; Wednesday presented ballets by the founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Tchaikovsky; and Thursday honored the company’s unmatched tradition of Balanchine choreography to music by Stravinsky. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The “garbage” category seems to include, alas, Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z He studied piano at the New York College of Music, and later attended the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied the works of composers including Stravinsky, Bartok and Elliott Carter. Pianist Cecil Taylor, U.S. jazz innovator, dead at 89: media 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z He even ended the season with a Saturday doubleheader, conducting Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” in the afternoon and Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” in the evening. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z It's hard to imagine even the most fervent Stravinsky fan settling down to listen to such a set very often. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps: 10 Reference Recordings – review 2013-06-20T17:45:01Z Stravinsky’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée” is parboiled ballet, and Virgil Thomson’s film score “The Plow That Broke the Plains” has its cinematic grandeur. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z He was listening to music, Thomas Tallis and Stravinsky, and “looking at Bach.” A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Debus set the mood by conducting Stravinsky’s “Ragtime” for orchestra. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z A rehearsal pianist needs to be able to play rep as varied as the company’s — Bernstein to Stravinsky to Tchaikovsky. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In the past four years he has traversed the works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, with the London Symphony, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z He quoted Stravinsky: “The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself.” Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “My repertory runs from Purcell to Dallapiccola,” Markevitch said in 1957; for him, “versatility” was crucial if a musician were to understand where Stravinsky, a favorite of his, was really coming from. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Stravinsky crossed boundaries — he was embracing folk music from Russia and popular music. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In the final movement of Fine’s Symphony, a skittish passage in the strings distinctly echoes the slashing chords of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Those five dancers at the start of “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” hold a horizontal line, facing front, their arms linked. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z After Stalin, she championed the still forbidden Western modern music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Looking for some Stravinsky statistics of my own, I made a quick search of The Times database. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Appleby is best known for opera, including the title role in Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” and David in Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” which he sings next month at the Met. Review: For Armory Recitals, a Modest but Memorable Return 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The emotional turning point comes during a little tiff when their egos suddenly lock horns, and Stravinsky contemptuously dismisses Chanel’s profession as next to nothing compared to his. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z One hears wisps of Stravinsky and Messiaen, but the rhetoric and architecture are from an even earlier time. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z He first saw Stravinsky perform when aged 11, was involved in his rehearsals by 16 and at 19 was playing under his direction. Michael Tilson Thomas: 'The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops' 2012-05-25T12:04:46Z That started while he was writing his first oversized book, “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions,” which in 1996 ultimately weighed in at two volumes and 1,757 pages. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Stravinsky’s Mass is modest and elegant, in lucid colors, while “King David” is a sprawling Technicolor spectacle. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z Audible at last in all its shattering glory, unencumbered by Nijinsky’s grating visuals, it earned Stravinsky what he called “a triumph such as composers rarely enjoy.” ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z Circumstances led him away from Berg and the European avant garde – he was amazed, years later, to hear Stravinsky's Agon and discover what beautiful music could be composed using the 12‑tone method. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z The collection begins with a demonstrative recording of Berg's modern violin concerto, and it moves into a lyrically bopping take on Stravinsky's. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But then, Stravinsky, the ultimate cosmopolitan bon vivant, lived a life outwardly far more exciting and colorful, becoming a virtual superstar celebrity in his old age. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s nothing very renegade about this program, though: music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Stravinsky. At a moment of transition, NSO offers the old-new: 20th-century classical works 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Stravinsky is a special focus of this summer’s festival. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z The Russian pianist, who won the Arthur Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky competitions in 2011, performs works by Schumann, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Hairspray Live!’ and ‘Shut Eye’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The first night of three has a dance theme, including Ravel’s “La Valse” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z When I was a teenager, I heard Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s epic, intrepid “Eroica” Symphony, followed by Stravinsky’s still-shocking “The Rite of Spring.” Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z "It conceals some ancient force, it is as if it's filled with the power of the Earth," Waltz said of Stravinsky's music. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z Should we then think of Elgar not as a radical, like Schoenberg or Stravinsky, but as a progressive, like Strauss or Mahler? Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Still, for all its local color and a semi-jazzy, semi-spiky style wavering somewhere between Gershwin and Stravinsky, it proved rather bland in the end. Review: Two U.S. Orchestras Get a Rare Chance at Carnegie 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z He cherishes his set's remastering of a 1940 recording conducted by Stravinsky, in which the orchestra stumbles through the sacrificial dance, emphasizing how hard it was at the time. A century on, Stravinsky's 'Rite' still summons the caveman 2013-05-26T10:43:44Z In 1972, when Bertolucci released “The Last Tango in Paris,” it might have been possible to see it, as Pauline Kael did, as a transgressive masterpiece on a par with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Perspective | More than anyone, Bernardo Bertolucci exemplified the pain and pleasure of the male gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Friday’s concert, at 8 p.m., presents the complete “Firebird” by Stravinsky alongside Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and his Suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin.” Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “Rubies,” to Stravinsky, is quintessentially New York — its speed, density and jazzy modernity characterize this city rather than this nation. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z “He makes Stravinsky better than Stravinsky,” Mr. Litton said, referring to the long relationship Balanchine had with that composer. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Though an usher kept us at bay, Stravinsky smiled and waved. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z In a future summer the festival will hold fake weddings in an abandoned station, with music by Stravinsky. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z At times it reflected Copland, Stravinsky and Britten, and included a few bars of Texas two-step. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z In its heedless affront to bourgeois sensibilities, the relationship of Stravinsky and Chanel mirrors the revolutionary spirit of “The Rite of Spring,” as does Chanel’s preference for stark black-and-white. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z “You could feel Stravinsky and Massine and Benois and Picasso and all those people in the room with us. To perform this music in that place on a bare stage with the ghosts was overwhelming.” Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z For within a handful of years, Stravinsky was pursuing an ironic, detached and elegant neoclassical aesthetic, which initially bewildered his fans as much as his detractors. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z As a young musician, Thomas, 74, worked with such musical giants as Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland before becoming an assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra while still in his 20s. ‘Sesame Street,’ Sally Field and Linda Ronstadt are among this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But unwilling to relinquish an iota of musical control, Stravinsky never ultimately worked in Hollywood, eventually recycling his film efforts into other scores. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Of the original narration, the performance of the Stravinsky included only the monologue near the end in praise of a humble life. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z She once performed Balanchine’s “Apollo” with Igor Stravinsky conducting his own music; the two men toasted each other with vodka during orchestra breaks. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Yet the subject has shown considerable staying power, as more recent operas by Stravinsky and Alfred Schnittke attest. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z Arrogant and thin-skinned, with hooded eyes and a wary demeanor, Mads Mikkelsen’s Stravinsky has music exploding in his head almost faster than he can transcribe it to the page. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z As a teenage organist in a Presbyterian church, he conducted adventurous modern works including Michael Tippet’s “A Child of Our Time,” Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms.” John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z For his texts Stravinsky selected some popular Russian poems about weddings, setting them for chorus and four vocal soloists. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z In this context and after a weekend showing the constant interplay of tradition and innovation in Stravinsky’s work, “Mavra” was the ideal conclusion, savvily poised between nostalgia and modernity. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z Written in 1995, at a transitional time for Mr. Adams, the work is a fascinating amalgam of styles, most notably those of early and middle Stravinsky and Steve Reich. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z His audiences heard plenty of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z Along with the tang of ragtime and tango in this 1918 score for small ensemble, Stravinsky began to experiment with neo-Classical forms, his attempt to remake earlier musical style, including those of Beethoven's era. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z They had heard about Israel’s find through Zippora Karz, a former City Ballet dancer who knew Israel, and decided to commission a score for the commemorative Stravinsky festival. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The problems were most apparent during performances of two Stravinsky ballet scores, “The Rite of Spring” on Thursday and “Petrouchka” on Friday. Review: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra’s Evolution Raises Issues of Mission 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z After a huge success, Stravinsky cut his links with his former teacher's family and pupils, and was placed at the centre of Diaghilev's world. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z Woetzel attempted to preface their performance by showing a garbled black-and-white clip of Balanchine and Stravinsky discussing time signatures, but technical difficulties prompted him to ask if there was “a physicist in the house.” ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It pays to remember that when Stravinsky and Auden began work on the opera at the composer’s home on Wetherly Drive above Sunset Boulevard in 1947, World War II was a fresh memory. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z And so it was again when Mr. Gilbert ended the season last month with “A Dancer’s Dream,” a program of two Stravinsky ballets, directed by Mr. Fitch. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z He also acknowledged having conducted in Stravinsky’s stead on one recording. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z While the fall and winter recalled the Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky festivals that were among the greatest outpourings of Balanchine’s genius, this season recalls the American Music Festival of 1988. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z Each “Sum Stravinsky” movement begins with a female solo that matches Stravinsky’s brio, felicitously phrased and finely punctuated. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z And this encounter with Stravinsky was more successful than the antecedent at the orchestra’s concert for the Shift festival this past Saturday night, when “Pulcinella” failed to cohere; presumably this week’s program had more rehearsal. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Balanchine would go on to choreograph around 40 works to Stravinsky’s music, including the masterworks “Apollo” “Agon,” “Symphony in Three Movements,” “Violin Concerto” and “Duo Concertant.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He then led an organic, insightful account of Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” a performance full of ideas. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The first is inspired by the “Oresteia,” the second by the myth of the American West, and the third by Russian folklore, as imagined by Stravinsky. Martha Graham Dance Company Recovers 2014-03-07T17:35:44Z For the Stravinsky he rearranged the orchestra so that principal double bass Nikita Naumov sat where the principal cello usually would, and so featured almost as a soloist. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z The Stravinsky trio, performed on Tuesday, Thursday and the evening of Jan. 26, features “Apollo,” “Orpheus” and “Agon,” and captures Balanchine’s modern sensibility. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z What evidence Mr. Craft musters comes from new readings of letters published long ago in the three-volume collection — edited by Mr. Craft — of Stravinsky’s correspondence. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Yet Stravinsky was inspired here, at least in part, by French Baroque music. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z Not even an incredible free skate two days later to an orchestral piece by Igor Stravinsky could salvage a medal for Chen. Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The festival has also featured a Stravinsky theme this summer; the closing concerts include Stravinsky’s “In Memoriam Dylan Thomas.” The Week Ahead: Aug. 21 ? 27 2011-08-19T19:54:02Z You understand why Stravinsky chose this combination of instruments and not another. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z In the early 1950s, the paternal spirit of American composition began to drift from Stravinsky toward Schoenberg. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Many compositions by other composers were palmed off as works by Pergolesi, including several that Stravinsky incorporated in his ballet “Pulcinella” thinking they were authentic. Review: A Spotlight for an Unsung Talent 2010-08-17T15:23:00Z The musicologist Bridget Cohen, among others, has described Stravinsky as a “migrant cosmopolitan,” whose primary identification was perhaps not always with Russia. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z After the current program of works by Rossini, Magnus Lindberg and Beethoven, he leads music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Prokofiev and — like the Mahler, a prime assignment — Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” starting next Thursday. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He comes to a village, where a king seeks someone to cure his daughter, giving Stravinsky the chance to present another march, this one opening with a trumpet fanfare and shreds of circus music. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z Spano, who made his debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra last April, conducts the ensemble again next week in a strong program of 20th-century works by Copland, Ravel and Stravinsky. Strong 20th-century program ? including Gershwin ? on SSO's plate next week 2010-09-30T20:44:00Z As yet, Mr. Peck’s choreography and its performances haven’t settled on the Koch stage; but this — Mr. Peck’s first creation to Stravinsky — is already buzzy. New York City Ballet’s Very 21st-Century Steps 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In the fall, Balanchine told the company manager, Betty Cage, that the festival must open on Stravinsky’s 90th birthday, and the theater would have to go dark for a week beforehand. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z While Mr. Craft states unequivocally that Ravel and Stravinsky were “time-to-time lovers,” he offers no supporting evidence whatsoever. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z If “Emeralds” evokes a French sensibility, “Rubies,” set to Stravinsky’s bouncy “Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra,” is all-American, from its brash red costumes to its hip-shaking pizzazz. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z Brooklyn Composers Riff on Stravinsky To its sponsors, the Ensemble ACJW’s mission is primarily educational. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Riffs on Stravinsky at Weill Hall 2012-02-19T21:40:18Z Children grow up learning to dance the jota and boleros and to play works by Mozart and Stravinsky, with flamenco coursing through their veins as well. Valencia’s Newest Sounds of Music 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z But apart from a single Stravinsky work, there is little here to show what shaped Mr. Andriessen, at least in classical music terms. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z The music sometimes resembled that of a Brazilian carnival parade, but there were also, in Mr. Valongo’s piece, echoes of Stravinsky and Bernstein. Review: Make Music New York Teaches Buildings How to Sing 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z And certain composers are best suited to Mr. Davis’s passions, among them Berlioz, Sibelius and Stravinsky. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z “Stravinsky was Balanchine’s closest creative collaborator, and his music is the lifeblood of the company.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In August 1944, four years after his Bowl debut, Stravinsky conducted a performance of the ballet to accompany a full production that featured a young new dancer, Jerome Robbins, in the title role. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z This portrait he did of Igor Stravinsky — a little bell went off for me. A Photographer Who Likes Inspiration as a Roommate 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z There also will be a tribute of sorts to Valentino: The ballet will perform "Rubies," from George Balanchine's "Jewels," set to Igor Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z Debussy and Stravinsky were ancient history at Weill. Music Review: Jay Campbell Plays a New Jonathan Dawe Work 2014-05-09T21:20:19Z On this thoughtfully conceived program, the Andriessen piece led to the Stravinsky concerto. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z He wrote and arranged all of the music on “A Church That Fits Our Needs,” affixing borrowed elements of Shostakovich and Stravinsky to an indie-rock undercarriage of drums and guitar. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z The two fought through the process of matching lyrics to music, leading Stravinsky to snipe at Gide about their “complete absence of rapport, which obviously originated in your attitude.” Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The work was Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the story of a Russian maiden ritually dancing herself to death to ensure good harvests. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z It is, as Stravinsky noted, “the church’s greatest ornament.” The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z In approaching the subject Stravinsky evokes antiquity through music of distilled, austerely Neo-Classical grace. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z The music alone made it a program of contrasts: , Stravinsky and the Greasy Beans, who played their bluegrass music. Dance Review: Ballet Across America Unites at Kennedy Center 2010-06-17T22:12:00Z This Columbia recording of Igor Stravinsky conducting his most famous work was among the first to be included in the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry when it was established in 2002. 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Teaching a Stravinsky seminar at Columbia inspired the two-volume “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions,” a seminal 1996 study that upended the cosmopolitan image that the composer and his acolytes had long cultivated. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Craft spent nearly a quarter-century as Stravinsky’s amanuensis, rehearsal conductor, musical adviser, globe-trotting traveling companion and surrogate son. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Yes, Disney, with the help of Leopold Stokowski, the conductor, chopped up the Stravinsky score quite a bit to serve its purpose. How I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse This made him something of a kindred spirit to his later composer colleagues Tchaikovsky and Glazunov; and, in due course, a precursor of the modernism of Stravinsky and Balanchine. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Ratmansky, 51, has created ballets to Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and other Russian composers, as well as Scarlatti, Strauss and Bernstein. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z There's a lot of Alban Berg-like chamber writing, but there's a fair amount of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," especially in the knife fight and chase scene where Mineo runs into the planetarium. L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Stravinsky himself conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for the cartoon film, which debuted in prime time on American television. 'Lady and Tramp' animator John Wilson dies at 93 2013-07-03T12:30:30Z Mr. Boykan’s mistake was not unusual: For a generation of American composers, Stravinsky truly was the best. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Stravinsky quickly slips into his Neo-Classical style, actually more neo-Baroque here, to create a concerto grosso in which orchestral soloists regularly wrest the spotlight from the piano line. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z The composer’s son, Soulima Stravinsky, a former piano instructor at the University of Illinois, was on icy terms with Mr. Craft and disputed some of the details in his books. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Stravinsky's epoch-making ballet, similarly, found Noseda at his most radical and insightful. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z Igor Stravinsky might be turning over in his grave, but then again, he might be dancing. ArtsBeat: Reimagined ‘Rite of Spring’ Canceled at Manchester International Festival 2013-06-07T18:07:36Z Instead, the first half of Mr. Trifonov’s recital, comprising short works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel, was almost entirely concerned with color. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov Returns to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-07T22:28:20Z He had listened to Stravinsky and the Beach Boys and bebop and Aretha Franklin, all with the same avid attention. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The Stravinsky was marvelous; other than for a few soft attacks on high notes, the improved BSO winds did themselves proud. This season, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays it safe, almost to a fault 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Stravinsky could be prickly and selfish, but he also had a generous streak. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z He introduced Mahler and Ives; he paid tribute to Hindemith, Stravinsky and sonata form. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In “Play” Mr. Andersen has created a seven-section work set to music by five composers: Mozart, Schubert, Britten, Arvo Pärt and Stravinsky. Desert Sun No Shortage Of Inspiration 2012-02-19T05:00:15Z Across the hallway, middle-school string players run through part of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” He believes in the arts as a basic right for kids. He is getting a $200,000 award for working for that 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The Stravinsky performance made a listener usually disinclined to second-guess Mr. Oliver wonder too about the wisdom of pointedly performing from memory. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler at Tanglewood 2010-07-18T21:49:00Z He looked to his right to see Igor Stravinsky sitting, very elegantly dressed, in the curve of the piano while the Russian composer's close collaborator, Robert Craft, conducted the choir. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z This is a signature work of the conductor , who saved it for the final concerts of his three-week Stravinsky festival with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday and Saturday. Music Review: Valery Gergiev Conducts New York Philharmonic 2010-05-10T20:59:00Z Music director Kent Nagano brings the orchestra to Southern California for three performances that include works by Debussy and Stravinsky plus Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring pianist Daniil Trifonov. Classical works from Montreal, New York and L.A. orchestras, plus cello and Ojai festivals, are in the mix 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The Stravinsky was, if anything, taken faster than usual, but with the same emphasis on rhythmic flexibility. Prom 71: Orchestre National de France/Gatti 2010-09-08T11:06:00Z Much of Mr. Craft’s writing about Stravinsky was well received. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The choice still seemed slightly odd, especially with an abundance of Stravinsky looming in this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Music Review: Danes Deliver Rare Works by a Native Son 2011-07-29T21:59:08Z Under Gustavo Dudamel, the ensemble’s charismatic music director, the orchestra begins with a program focused on dance, including Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” Classical Music Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Not while we still fight tooth and nail over how Russian the composer Igor Stravinsky was. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z The next night’s program explores folk motifs in music in works by Villa-Lobos, Stravinsky and others. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Accompanied by fragments of Stravinsky and nursery songs, her movements seem freighted with autobiographical detail – a skittering war dance of frustration, a halting walk, an ecstatic sprawl. In Pieces 2010-06-28T21:01:00Z Conceived as a ballet score, it belongs alongside the great dance music of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky that thrives on the concert stage. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The orchestra had a chance to show its mettle in Stravinsky’s “Firebird” suite, which concluded the program. Music Review: A New Leader Brings Along Some Old Favorites 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z But the one new dance he created — for the second part of the festival, known as Ojai North and occurring on the University of California campus here — was to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z There will be nearly 30 such scores, including familiar pieces by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Elgar, Bruckner and Richard Strauss. CSO goes back to the future for 2015-16 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z This could be a somber Finnish version of the festive outdoor fair in a St. Petersburg square evoked by Stravinsky at the beginning of “Petrushka.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z And “Divertimento From ‘Le Baiser de la Fée’ ” gives us fragments of Tchaikovsky as rearranged by Stravinsky. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z To Stravinsky he was “a writer of genius,” and Kenneth Clark once called him the best modern painter. Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The composition was deeply informed by tradition — he called it “an homage piece to the orchestra and to my heroes,” Ravel, Stravinsky, Sibelius and Bartok. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Early works that show the influence of Bartok and Stravinsky, they were played with panache here. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z The Stravinsky score carries its own legends, of course, and more choreographed interpretations than just about any other piece of music. Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Rites of Pina Bausch’s Past 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “Balanchine was lucky, really and truly, that Stravinsky came along at that time,” Mr. Martins said, comparing their relationship to that of the Russian choreographer Marius Petipa and Tchaikovsky. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z The winningest Grammy composer, in the best orchestral performance category, is Mahler, followed by Bartok and Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Debussy. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Everyone agrees that Mr. Craft made invaluable contributions to Stravinsky’s life and work. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Here are the knock-kneed chorus-girl lines of “Stravinsky Violin Concerto”; the acerbic, experimental partnering of the opening pas de deux in “Four Temperaments”; the acrobatic, pushed-to-the-limit flexibility of “Agon”; the high-spirited jogging groups of “Rubies.” Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z It was Igor Stravinsky’s birthday, and George Balanchine wanted to give his dear friend a gift. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z I asked him another nagging question: why make these revelations now, so many decades after Stravinsky’s death in 1971? Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Their connection, and Balanchine’s devotion and closeness to Stravinsky, are evident in “Duo.” Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z This week two particularly thoughtful conductors offer what promises to be probing accounts of Stravinsky works on programs that also include music by Mozart and Beethoven. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z His 2006 album, “Sound Grammar,” which drew on sources as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and the blues, received the Pulitzer Prize for music composition in 2007. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He meticulously dated and saved these, an idea he said he got from Igor Stravinsky. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Over time he wove widely varied styles into his voice, including Stravinsky Neo-Classicism, jazz and even bel canto opera. Review: Cantata Profana Revives a Henze Cycle Inspired by German Poems 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Casella championed Stravinsky and Schoenberg and later became instrumental in the Vivaldi revival. Music Review: Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Plays at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-09T00:38:00Z Mr. Morris’s latest work, “Renard,” is a good-humored, but nonetheless thoroughly flimsy, romp to Stravinsky’s score of that title. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z In his later years, Stravinsky strategically underplayed Russia’s influence on him and his work; he wanted to be thought of, his biographer Stephen Walsh writes, as “a phenomenon without a history.” Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z To many audiences, even Stravinsky still seems newfangled. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z From the early days of Balanchine at City Ballet in the 1930s audiences were introduced to new works by Schoenberg, Hindemith and Stravinsky. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z She’s been dancing the “Rosenkavalier” section of “Vienna Waltzes,” the Bach Ricercata finale of “Episodes” and the heroic central role of “Diamonds”; on Thursday her debut in “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” Aria I, was characteristically ardent. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He studied Stravinsky, Bartók and Elliott Carter at the New England Conservatory, and Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington in his spare time; the latter influences are fitfully clear on Bemsha Swing. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z On Wednesday, the adjustment seemed to remain a work in progress — some overly acidic collisions of treble tones appeared in the Stravinsky, for example — but there was also much that proved electrifying under Lintu’s baton. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Kopatchinskaja has made several more alarmingly innovative recordings of a remarkably broad range of standard and nonstandard repertory over the last seven years, including rapturously praised performances of concertos by Bartók, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Ligeti. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z There were a few surprises in the mighty performances of the Strauss and Stravinsky that followed. Seattle Symphony delivers a powerful opening night, even with a COVID travel-related conductor change 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z He also founded his own animation company, Fine Arts Films, in 1955, where his greatest early success came with "Petroushka", an adaptation of Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet. 'Lady and Tramp' animator John Wilson dies at 93 2013-07-03T12:30:30Z The brilliant pianist Blair McMillen appears in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, a terrific but seldom performed piece. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z So it made sense, he thought, to precede “Absolute Jest” with something by Stravinsky — here a nuanced and supple account of the neo-Classical “Orpheus” — and to end with Beethoven’s Fourth. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The afternoon culminated with a piece as powerful and weighty as the Stravinsky: Glass’s “Four Movements for Two Pianos.” Two pianists show the difference between playing and performing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z There was also the collaboration of George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky in a 1942 “Ballet of the Elephants” for Ringling: 50 dancing showgirls and, in pink tutus, 50 dancing elephants. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z A short and unmistakable Stravinsky work, "Scherzo a la Russe," opened the program: jaunty, quirky, often unexpected and fun. A brilliant 'Pictures' at the symphony 2012-02-10T18:00:05Z Onstage, Christian and Foucheux will read from letters exchanged between Stravinsky and Roerich and present “Rite” as a ballet that resulted from a stroke of artistic kismet. NSO and local actors tell the story behind the creation of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ Blair Brown radiates magnetism and warm authority as Stravinsky's wife Vera, a former actress who is also Sudeikin's ex-wife and a leader within the group. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z The migration to Los Angeles of many of Europe’s leading composers and musicians, chief among them Schoenberg and Stravinsky, inevitably shaped the orchestra’s identity, even if it was slow to recognize their work. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Carolina Performing Arts' Rite of Spring at 100, a season-long celebration of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev's epochal ballet, which had its premiere in Paris in May 1913, reached an early climax. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z The final scene in the madhouse has some of Stravinsky’s most inspired and overtly emotional music. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z The chronology ranged from “Hockey” to the premieres of two 2014 works and touched on jazz, electronics, wild and woolly Modernist sounds, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky, elegy and horror. Review: John Zorn and Talea Ensemble Play at Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z "A good composer does not imitate, he steals," Stravinsky reputedly said. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The contrast was most obvious in three readings of the same piece — Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture — but still apparent when the finalists took different sections of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” Elim Chan’s Flick Conducting Prize Is Rare Win for a Woman 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z For its second program of the winter season, “Hear the Dance: Russia,” New York City Ballet offers four works set to the music of Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Glazunov. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Stravinsky himself called the menage a “trio con brio.” Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z “We couldn’t conduct whole areas of contemporary music, including Stravinsky.” Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Conductor Who Fled Poland, Dies at 93 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Most of the reviews paid no attention to Stravinsky beyond naming him as the composer before turning with gusto to the weird antics onstage and the weirder ones in the hall. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z On Feb. 7, the Palace will host a “Stravinsky Marathon,” filling its two main concert halls with the composer’s music from 10:30 a.m. until well past 9 p.m. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Bartók loved Stravinsky's music, specifically The Rite, for the way it harnessed folk music; Stravinsky professed to hate Bartók's music for exactly the same reason. Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:52Z Even before Hitler took power in 1933, Rosbaud’s tastes were drawing the attention of what he told Stravinsky was a “chauvinistic movement.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Joyce was almost asleep, and Stravinsky, in an uppity way, later claimed he didn't recognise the author of Ulysses. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z It opened with Shostakovich’s Concertino for Two Pianos, a work that shows off the composer’s more antic side and offered another Russian voice along with the Stravinsky. Two pianists show the difference between playing and performing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z There was another Bernstein “Rite of Spring” in the summer of 1966 when the orchestra presented a Stravinsky festival, with Stravinsky taking part. Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z To achieve a more abstract effect, Stravinsky simplified the particulars of the story in his scenario. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Bernstein’s performance of this opening blast is emphatic and anguished, and significantly slower than in Stravinsky’s own recording. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Dive deep into Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in the season-opener of Beyond the Score, which uses musical examples, narration and projected visuals to explore the context and history of a piece of music. Lots of entertainment treats for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2011-10-26T22:17:04Z The sardonic march of the Second is trademark Shostakovich, who alludes to Stravinsky in the violin solo of the Fifth Fragment. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z Of the dozens of ballets seen in New York in the last two months, how many have been to music more recent than Stravinsky or Britten? Dance Review: Ballet and New Music Mix, Meet and Mingle 2011-06-26T22:30:27Z He showed a precocious talent in music and by 12 was studying musical scores and hoping to meet Stravinsky. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z In the Stravinsky Festival, there were glorious debuts, too — notably Isabella LaFreniere in “Firebird,” a long-awaited, incandescent performance that used every angle of her long body. A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z But those interested in Chanel will do better watching last year's far superior "Coco Before Chanel"; those looking for a definitive movie on Stravinsky will need to wait, and — for now — just listen. 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Style triumphs over substance 2010-07-08T20:40:00Z One possibly apocryphal story has Saint-Saëns storming out of the notorious premiere of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in 1913. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z “Camino Real” isn’t one of those landmark works — like Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” or Picasso’s “Demoiselles d’Avignon” — that would become an accepted part of the cultural vocabulary, a template for much that followed. | 'The Really Big Once': ?Camino Real,? Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan 2010-04-19T21:52:00Z That program included a premiere by the composer Tania León, as well as works by Stravinsky, Glinka and Leonard Bernstein. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z As a torso it is still impressively coherent, though, in a style that leans heavily on the "primitivism" of Stravinsky and Bartók, with textures dominated by a huge range of exotic percussion. Ginastera: Popul Vuh; Cantata para Am?rica M?gica 2010-04-15T21:00:00Z How many listeners would enjoy Stravinsky’s tricky, acerbic “Agon” were it not for George Balanchine’s penetrating ballet to the score? Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But his collaboration with Stravinsky could engender public discord. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Revered classics — Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" and Gershwin's "American in Paris," to name a few — are part of the picture. Seattle Symphony's new season: 'Doctor Atomic' is in there, so is 'Rite of Spring' 2011-01-19T20:11:23Z Performed in 1954 by the young Leontyne Price at a contemporary music conference in Rome, the piece won a 20th-century masterpiece award, conferred by Stravinsky. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Capalbo portrays Stravinsky at this point in his life as being in danger of becoming irrelevant. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The program concluded with an homage to what may be the greatest artistic collaboration of 20th-century America: Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine. ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Choreographed by George Balanchine to a classic score by Igor Stravinsky, “Apollo” would always be a good work to commence a City Ballet season — but seldom more than now. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “The Rake’s Progress” Slyly moving, Stravinsky’s operatic masterpiece riffs on Mozartean Classicism with an energy and tenderness that presses it past pastiche. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “What do we really gain by Russianizing Stravinsky to the bone?” he now asked. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z The University of Maryland Concert Choir got a workout on the first half with the Part and Stravinsky, one all intuitive emotion, the other a beautiful cerebral tangle of sound. Review | The BSO gives them something to shout about with an edgy program 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z One of the film's treasures is rare footage of Stravinsky in his back yard wearing a bathing suit and showing off his compact physique. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z |
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