Agon (1957), Stravinsky's final ballet, represents a significant step on his route towards serialism. The composition was stretched out over a number of years, during which the composer became ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent ...

with whom he went on to make the landmark ballets Orpheus and Agon. Settling in the USA after 1939, Stravinsky continued to refine his style, culminating in some beautiful late (and too frequently ...

Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan’s Town Hall ...