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 ...

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' ...

Magic springs from every moment of Stravinsky’s rapturous, red-hot Firebird, a masterpiece of orchestral innovation that soars through landscapes of wonder and enchantment, then roars its way to a ...

Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird) 2. The enchanted garden of Kastchei Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird) 3. The Firebird Appears Pursued by Tsarevitch Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu (The ...

Pacific Symphony will present a program centered on Stravinsky’s The Firebird, conducted by Artistic and Music Director Designate Alexander Shelley. The performance of The Firebird will be accompanied ...

Stravinsky first achieved international fame with these works, which were commissioned for – and first performed by – Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Premiered during an extraordinary period ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky’s fortunes had not kept pace with his fame. In the 37 years since he had written it, The Firebird had made a lot of money, but not for him. For one thing, as a Russian emigre, his ...

David Robertson conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra during a performance of Stravinsky's Fireworks on April 25, 2019 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Ben Torres / Special ...

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 ...

His father died when he was very young. And while Ravi Coltrane now plays jazz, it was his mother's love for a very different kind of music that provided the childhood soundtrack for him and his ...