Selected by David Epstein, the author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.” ...

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra will perform the music to legendary composer Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The ballet’s 1913 ...

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 ...

“I am becoming,” said 77-year-old Igor Stravinsky, “not less but more of a serial composer.” The reference was to his latest work, a twelve-minute exercise in what the most famed living composer calls ...

Picking up where Coco Before Chanel left off, Coco & Igor tells the story of an illicit liaison between the forty-something Coco and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Anna Mouglalis (erstwhile muse to ...

With the music for the ballet The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky made an indelible mark on the future of music composition. The Rite of Spring broke many boundaries; influencing future generations to ...

Igor Stravinsky’s fortunes had not kept pace with his fame. In the 37 years since he had written it, The Firebird had made a lot of money, but not for him. For one thing, as a Russian emigre, his ...

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When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim ...

The flamboyant conductor Gustavo Dudamel got a jubilant reception at the New York Philharmonic’s spring gala on Tuesday. By Sarah Bahr and Dolly Faibyshev Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante ...