Flutist Hubert Laws is one of many jazz artists to have recorded an adaptation of themes from The Rite of Spring. A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become ...
Although it is gratifying to read about H. William Rice’s experience of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, I can’t help but point out that, at least where Rite of Spring is concerned, he is still not a very ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...
Some of us associate springtime with daffodils or azaleas. Igor Stravinsky did not. Thinking back to his boyhood in Russia, he remembered the winter's ice giving way to the "violent Russian spring." ...
When used simply as marketing tools, classical music anniversaries resemble the fast-food industry. And this has been no more musically unhealthful than the “Rite of Spring” centennial two years ago.
Our friends at Deceptive Cadence, NPR Music's classical blog, are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring all this week. You'd be well-advised to wander on over there and check it out.
About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...
Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...
As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...
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