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 ...

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

I’m conducting music that I’ve performed ... Members of Finnish National Ballet re-enact The Rite of Spring Igor Stravinsky was brought up in St Petersburg, where his father was principal ...

In 1947, Robert Craft was just another conducting student at Julliard who happened to have a passion for contemporary music. But the following year, his life changed forever: he became Stravinsky ...

Now settled in Paris, the Sudeikins renewed their association with Diaghilev, and that is how, at dinner in a Montmartre restaurant in February 1921, Vera met Igor Stravinsky - during the course ...

Igor Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring" captures the fury of seasonal change, but the real story of renewal lies in the quiet ...

Stravinsky enjoyed conducting his own works, both for the artistic satisfaction and the financial rewards, while Craft was useful in rehearsing orchestras for him, and this collaboration produced ...