Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

Stravinsky 50 includes a five-and-half-hour River of Music exploring Stravinsky’s genius with a curated flow of fifty pieces - from celebrated works to lesser-known gems Stravinsky is one of the most ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought some sheet music back to Paris ...

Stravinsky is one of the most influential figures of twentieth century cultural and musical life: from his ground-breaking creativity and early riot-provoking pieces to the wide-ranging influences ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule In 1947, Robert Craft was just another conducting student at Julliard who ...

A typewritten note attached to a set of orchestral parts has a University of Montevallo music professor in search of a lost manuscript of Igor Stravinsky. Joseph Landers' quest to find the original ...

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

Very seldom does the opportunity come along to immerse one's self in the life and work of a major American composer; to indulge in the private and public face of a complicated and somewhat tortured ...

The amazing thing is how Stravinsky could create something unforgettable in such a short time-frame – some of these pieces such as those Cat Lullabies last less than a minute. He liked to discipline ...