Over a two-week period in June, I was exposed to great art -- courtesy of the Greenwich Music Festival. With its subject as Igor Stravinsky, called the most famous composer of the 20th century, we ...

Igor Stravinsky was still in his 20s when a dream of a girl dancing herself to death in a pagan ritual inspired him to come up with the thunderous, revolutionary Rite Of Spring. An avant garde ballet ...

Amanda Smith: This is music for the ballet Apollo. The composer is Igor Stravinsky and the ballet is the oldest surviving choreography by George Balanchine. In Artworks today we're talking about how ...

Igor Stravinsky is widely known as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and one of his revolutionary ballets is coming to Tucson to honor the 100 year anniversary of its creation. The UA ...

A Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does ...

His father died when he was very young. And while Ravi Coltrane now plays jazz, it was his mother's love for a very different kind of music that provided the childhood soundtrack for him and his ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...

To mark half a century since the end of Igor Stravinsky’s long and creative musical life, Radio 3 presents an expertly-curated ‘river’ of his music. Over the course of five and a half hours listeners ...

The Soviet Union’s stance on the Berne Convention made it difficult in the 1920s for Stravinsky to collect royalties on his most successful works. Writing music for himself to play brought performance ...