The Fantasia para un gentilhombre by Joaquin Rodrigo is based on a tuneful collection of songs and dances by the 17th century Spanish guitarist/composer Gaspar Sanz. Rodrigo wrote it in 1954 for ...

The 37th Music in the Mountains comes to a sizzling conclusion The closing weekend for Music in the Mountains 2023 begins with Brahms and ends with a dance. The final three concerts of the 37th annual ...

The Russian-born composer, conductor and pianist Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) remains, five decades after his death, a towering figure in 20th century music. If he had written the music for only one ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought some sheet music back to Paris ...

“The Fairy’s Kiss,” based on a bone-chilling Hans Christian Andersen story and with a score combining the gifts of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, is something you would think that many choreographers ...

There was huge excitement when a supposedly lost work by Stravinsky was rediscovered in 2015. His Funeral Song was composed in 1908 as a memorial tribute to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, but as ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...

Ivan Hewett tests if harmony is a reflection of history using Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. With Gerard McBurney. From 2017. Show more Ivan Hewett examines a chord from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to ...

The music of two of Russia’s most famous composers -- Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky -- have figured prominently in the early days of the Sochi Olympics. At the team figure skating competition Sunday, ...