(The) Rite of Spring, '(Le) sacre du printemps' Simon Rattle, Conductor Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Symphonies of Wind Instruments Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Rattle, Conductor Apollon ...

To mark the birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882) classical host Cale Wiggins sets the record straight about riots and The Rite. Stravinsky's monumental work will be ...

On May 29, 1913 a riot-inducing work of art, Rite of Spring, was performed at a Paris theater. One hundred years to the day later, the Spoleto Festival will pay homage to Igor Stravinky’s modern ...

Due to yet another cancellation in the 2011−2012 season by Italian guest conductor RiccardoChailly, the first half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance last Tuesday consisted of entirely ...

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 ...

It’s hard today to imagine a ballet causing an audience to riot, but that’s what happened 100 years ago when the well-heeled Parisian spectators at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées revolted against Igor ...

Minnesota Orchestra; Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor; recorded on October 3, 1977 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Candide-Vox CT 2212 (cassette); QCE 31108 (long-play record); Vox ...

(Above: Performers from Rec Room’s production of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring.” Photo: Natasha Gorel) When Igor Stravinsky’s famous — and perhaps infamous — ballet: The Rite of Spring ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

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." ...

“The Rite of Spring,” having reached the 100th celebratory anniversary of its clamorous Paris premiere this spring, is the new “Four Seasons.” Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score has become ubiquitous.