Stravinsky News

If the L.A. Philharmonic opening night concert was any indication, Esa-Pekka Salonen is going out in a blaze of glory.

Fifty-year-old Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is a champion of twentieth-century classical music and a charismatic music director who has turned the Los Angeles Philharmonic, founded in 1919 ...

"In about 20 years, we will rarely hear Brahms in the concert hall; we will mostly hear contemporary music." A bold prediction, particularly as dwindling audiences for classical music have most orchestras ...

OK, hands up if you've seen a bassoon player do a solo in front of an orchestra.

The heated, often deeply antagonistic exchange that has developed in the comments to my post on David Foster Wallace reminds me of something from the recent past of my graduate studies.

The Australian Ballet took to the Paris stage for the first time in 43 years last night with contemporary dance company Bangarra for a double-act tribute to age-old Aboriginal culture.

Stephen Page, the artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, is disarmingly honest.

While jazz began as a form of entertainment, it has evolved into a more serious musical genre.

A TRIPLE bill of ballets celebrating the famous composer Stravinsky will be performed at the Festival Theatre.

It can't be easy being told that the future of your art form depends on you. And at first glance, making plotless dances to complicated music by Stravinsky looks like an odd way to rejuvenate ballet as a ...

Cav And Pag Coliseum, London, Saturday Richard Jones's new updating of the famous double bill opens ENO's season.

The concert, Choral Masterpieces – Haydn and Stravinsky will be performed on Thursday 9 October at Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE® bringing together soloists from New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, ...

Petrushka* Artist: Sakari Oramo conducts City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, violin soloist Leila Stefanowicz Album/Venue CHSSR @ Congress Palace, Lugano, Switzerland - 2006 Lugano Festival Date: Tuesday, ...

Staged The Threepenny Opera and The Merry Widow early in his career. Stravinsky thought his production of The Rake's Progress "ideal". Andrei Tarkovsky His magnificently gloomy 1983 production of Boris Godunov ...

Club Mod Host: Robert McBride What's Coming up next It's another birthday party this week at the club, Joan Tower's 70th, which is this Saturday.

This week classical music reviewer Geoff Adams listens to John Antill's Aboriginal ballet, Alexander Ivashkin playing Prokofiev and sonic nostalgia for New Hampshire .

Percussionist Tito Puente turned out 118 records, more than 2,000 musical arrangements and 10,000-plus live performances.

The curiosity of the music programming at this year's festival, Honegger's Le Roi David started life as the integral music for a theatrical spectacular, the composer later condensing the various spoken parts ...

The intermingling of classical and jazz methods is thriving, to judge by the full house for the most ambitious jazz-oriented Prom of the 2008 series.

When a musician writes a song called 'St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast,' it's hard to believe he would cite a composer like Igor Stravinsky as an influence.