Orchestra Wellington brings to life one of the greatest puppet love stories of all time – one which comes with some serious strings attached. The second of Stravinky’s great ballets, Petrouchka is a ...

Classical music writer Fran Hoepfner recalls her days as a young percussionist learning to play the groundbreaking Russian ballet music. Why Stravinsky's 'Petrouchka' Was One Percussionist's Nightmare ...

The Seattle Symphony’s current program is labeled Stravinsky’s “Pétrouchka,” but there is more to it, primarily in the form of two dazzling young musicians: Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and Dutch ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

Three ballet scores connected by the tragic figure of the great Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky make a superb programme. The main work is Stravinsky’s second ballet Petrushka (Petrouchka in French), ...

FOLLOWING the international celebrations last year of the centenary of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, you might expect the brouhaha to have subsided. Don't you believe it. Wait until you hear this. Les ...

Following are several recent, and recently reissued, recordings conducted by Pierre Boulez: Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet, 1910 original version), Four Etudes for Orchestra, Fireworks.