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 ...
This story begins and ends with a photo. It’s Igor Stravinsky, the legendary modernist composer. He looks a little worse for wear. In fact, it looks like a mug shot. The date on the Boston ...
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 ...
Agon was actually commissioned to be a ballet. Stravinsky sat at a piano in the studio with Balanchine as he was choreographing, and they worked together on it. Not a lot of ballets are like that.