After Stravinsky's death, the choreographer and his New York City Ballet company twice hosted a festival of the composer's ballets. 9. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he lived in France and the U.S.

The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) is generally regarded as one of the most original and versatile artists in the history of Western music. His output includes practically all the ...

This year, the Mendocino Music Festival has chosen Igor Stravinsky as the featured composer. At the festival, which runs from ...

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 ...

Stravinsky scholarship blossoms despite a protective heirWhen Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring made its debut in Paris in 1913, the crowd went wild, but not in a good way. The musicians ...

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 ...

Among the most durable compositions of Igor Stravinsky will surely be L’Histoire du Soldat, that brilliantly macabre musical setting of the legend of a soldier who trades his soul to the devil ...

Alex Ross on Igor Stravinsky’s “Funeral Song,” from 1908, ... When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed.

When most people think of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) they think of harsh rhythms and screeching strings in “The Rite of Spring,” alongside the infamous riot at its Parisian premiere brought ...