Many music lovers consider Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (“Le Sacre du Printemps”), subtitled “Scenes from Pagan Russia,” the greatest orchestral composition of the 20th century. Or at least the ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev's powerful, nearly maniacal interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a lesson in controlled chaos. He... Stravinsky's Most Raging 'Rite Of Spring' Stravinsky's ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” with its crazy, pulsing polyrhythms and pitchy shrieks, has become standard orchestral fare, but it famously was booed when it premiered as a ballet score in Paris ...

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...