One of the century’s great composers makes his home in Hollywood—surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they’re missing ...
In doing The Rake’s Progress of Igor Stravinsky, the New York City Opera tried its hand at a classic of musical modernism. Despite an unsuitable set design and a less than stellar musical execution, ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Whatever their historical validity, the picture of Stravinsky these autobiographical productions conjure up is of ...
BroadStage, as part of its Sunday Morning Music / Santa Monica series, presents Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, narrated by renowned pianist, actor, and playwright Hershey Felder and featuring a musical ...
A story of love, rejection and murder, told in music. Petroushka — by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote this music for a ballet in 1911. The concert took place at this summer's Grand Teton Music ...
This week's Puzzler is seasoned with the gutteral sounds of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. We hear a bit of this ballet music, played by the Cleveland Orchestra, with Pierre Boulez conducting.
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy. SYMPHONIC, ETC. Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra . (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC- THE CREATIVE PERFORMER , Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Igor Stravinsky. Originally aired on January 31, 1960 on CBS Television as part of its Ford ...
Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe At Carnegie Hall, a program of ...