Igor Stravinsky News

For Sinfonia of the Gulf Coast and its followers, the season is looking on the pink side.

No one doubts that Igor Stravinsky's collaboration with the Ballets Russes early last century set the standards for most of the innovations in dance as an art form.

Italian conductor Fabio Luisi and 21-year-old French pianist Lise de la Salle make their Boston Symphony Orchestra debuts showcasing music from the French tradition.

Christmas, Islington's Little Angel Theatre is presenting John Agard's Petrushka - from November 21, 2009 to January 31, 2010.

The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

There's nothing narrow about what's planned at the new WideSpot Performing Arts Center in Stockholm.

IN 1969, Peter Darrell was invited to move his company, Western Ballet Theatre, from Bristol to Scotland, and Scotland's national dance company was born.

Director Robert Lepage's The Nightingale & Other Short Fables is an all-Stravinsky cabaret/concert with the resources of opera to back it up, and the result is dazzling.

It's an old problem for classical ballet troupes: How do you maintain a living museum of dance without becoming a mausoleum? The question comes to mind this week as the National Ballet of Canada gives the company premiere of Petrouchka, a hallowed work in the artistic evolution of ballet.

Building a classical concert around a particular theme can be a tricky proposition.

Few ensembles have made as many strides in modern music as Eighth Blackbird. Clarinetist Michael J. Maccaferri, left, cellist Nicholas Photinos, violinist Matt Albert, flutist Tim Munro, percussionist Matthew Duval and pianist Lisa Kaplan appear Tuesday at Samford University.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen displays his range in two new films, Valhalla Rising and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.

Morehead State University's Department of Music, Theatre and Dance will host Marshall University music faculty members on Friday, Sept.

A new addition to the company's repertoire in William Forysthe's hyperkinetic Workwithinwork completes this special anniversary triumvirate from a range of dancer-turned-choreographers at their most sublime.

This is the currently definitive biography of Igor Stravinsky - master of European modernism whom many consider to be the greatest composer of the twentieth century.

During the Hearst Castle's heyday, music was part of the entertainment lavished on celebrities such as Charles Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Joan Crawford and Charles Lindbergh.

BAALBECK: One by one, the 37 dancers of the Bejart Ballet Lausanne trickled onto stage to warm up.

Primal energy: the English National Ballet performs Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' In the landscape of music there are those occasional solitary peaks we call masterpieces.

Good morning. Today is the 168th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Russian composer and author Igor Stravinsky.

Life and career Stravinsky's father was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and the mixture of the musical, theatrical, and literary spheres in the Stravinsky family household exerted a lasting influence on the composer.