Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

The San Antonio Philharmonic will return to perform at the First Baptist Church for its second season. Credit: Courtesy Photo / San Antonio Philharmonic The San Antonio Philharmonic opens its second ...

On this week's podcast of From the Top, the victorious finale from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite is performed by a teenage pianist from Chicago. He's joined by a teenage violinist using YouTube to ...

Igor Stravinsky was a 26-year old nobody when he was asked to compose music for a Russian fairytale set to dance. The 1910 premier of The Firebird in Paris was a smashing success as the debut ...

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On June 25 1910, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird opened to acclaim at the Paris Opéra. The success propelled its composer, then aged 28, to international prominence, a position of influence he ...

Stravinsky seated with Rimsky-Korsakov (left corner), photographed in 1908. I'm pleased to continue presenting interviews by Mary Rousculp Hoffman which she recorded during her years as Program ...

The tale goes that the phoenix — the bird of fire — lives for 500 years. When it's ready to die, its nest flames up and a new phoenix rises from the ashes. Igor Stravinsky set this legend to music in ...

When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...