The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, presented its final performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” on Friday. “The Rite of Spring,” or “Le Sacre du printemps” in its ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2024/25 season with powerful performances centered around Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Under the direction of Music Director Salvador Brotons, the ...

The DSO's Brahms and Bruckner were linked only by proximity of premieres, but Stravinsky studied with the older Russian composer, and learned a lot of orchestral tricks from him. They're quite obvious ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra will perform the music to legendary composer Igor Stravinsky’s ...

Thursday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert may have had the highest average decibel count of any recent classical performance in the area. Most of that was built into the music, but there was ...

Django Bates tells the story of Charlie Parker’s spontaneous inclusion of a quotation from Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite in his music, on spotting the Russian composer in his audience in New York in ...

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 ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

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 ...

SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Symphony Orchestra's 92nd season begins with a flip of seasons. The Sunday, Sept. 15 concert may be a week before the official start of fall, but it'll be spring inside the ...