The performance that almost incited the well-heeled of Paris to a ravenous riot is celebrating its centennial. Even now the pounding score of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring that debuted on May ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...
On May 29, 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring debuted in Paris. By intermission, the police had been called in break up the riot that was going on in the aisles of the Theatre du Champs ...
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The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...
As I was planning the concerts for my first season as Sarasota Orchestra’s music director, I was absolutely certain that our audiences should experience Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. It wasn’t ...
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 ...
Pref. by François Lesure and Genesis of a masterpiece, by Robert Craft, in English, French, and German: p. vii-xlvii. Appendix (47 p. (in pocket) 27 cm ...