but equally it can be deeply spiritual and profoundly moving – extraordinary from a composer who once claimed that music is "essentially powerless to express anything at all." Stravinsky’s ...

Stravinsky began to concentrate on using smaller groups of players and developed an interest in the procedures and techniques of classical and baroque composers. This neoclassical phase lasted ...

Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life through his five symphonies ...

Something happened May 29, 1913, when composer Igor Stravinsky debuted “The Rite of Spring” as music for a ballet in Paris.

Legendary avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died in Germany, where she spent more than 30 years of her life after ...

The Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra recently hosted the first of four concerts in Nassau County on Sunday, March 23, ...

But some moderns—especially Stravinsky, Ravel and Copland—are making gradual gains. For a real growth stock, there is a composer named Leonard Bernstein. Largely on the strength of his theater ...

Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Schola Cantorum, soloists, the composer conducting. Columbia ML 5383. Krenek's pathos in instantly communicative, the pain is very near the surface. Threni seems more ...

Chamber Music on the Fox will bring its largest concert of the season to the stage: “Capriccio.” Named in honor of the ...

Stravinsky had been sarcastically scathing about the conductor’s earlier 1964 ... The result has less visceral excitement than the composer’s own version (although it is more consistently accurate in ...

Many musicians have lived here — including Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky, pretty successful composers in their own rights. There have also been opera stars, including Chaliapin ...