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 ...

Hear excerpts of "The Rite of Spring" in conductor Valery Gergiev's thrilling performance with the Kirov Orchestra. Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) is often held up ...

About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...

In May of 2013, composer Igor Stravinsky's landmark work "The Rite of Spring" turns 100 years old. Already, there have been conferences and performances all over the world to celebrate. Why is this ...

This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On May 29, 1913 a riot-inducing work of art, Rite of Spring, was performed at a Paris theater. One ...

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." ...

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 ...