Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Strangely, it's the most familiar part of the tone poem - the macabre, witches' ...
On this week's podcast of From the Top, the victorious finale from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite is performed by a teenage pianist from Chicago. He's joined by a teenage violinist using YouTube to ...
In its most ambitious Masterworks program yet, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and its guest conductor Ken Lam thrilled a Friday night audience with a glittering performance of Stravinsky's Firebird ...
The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra will open its 37th season with a compelling program of works by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky, including the latter’s incandescent Firebird Suite (1919 ...
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Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...
It’s that classic story of boy meets mythical bird, bird gives boy magical feather, boy rescues girl from evil sorcerer king with bird’s help. “And then of course, they get married and live happily ...
Connections among the three composers at Friday night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert might not have been immediately obvious. Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky were both sons of imperial Russia, ...