The San Antonio Philharmonic will return to perform at the First Baptist Church for its second season. Credit: Courtesy Photo / San Antonio Philharmonic The San Antonio Philharmonic opens its second ...

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 ...

Igor Stravinsky was a 26-year old nobody when he was asked to compose music for a Russian fairytale set to dance. The 1910 premier of The Firebird in Paris was a smashing success as the debut ...

In the early 1900s, a relatively unknown Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballet Russes. Stravinsky wasn’t Diaghilev’s first choice — many ...

On June 25 1910, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird opened to acclaim at the Paris Opéra. The success propelled its composer, then aged 28, to international prominence, a position of influence he ...

Mark Forrest introduces an afternoon of of specially made recordings from the Belfast International Arts Festival plus the theme of dance continues with Stravinsky. Show more Mark Forrest brings you ...

If you’re thinking “Who?,” that’s about right. The Russian composer was the Ballets Russes’ first choice to write music for a choreographic retelling of the Firebird, a Slavic folk tale. He never did.

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...