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CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring debuted to a riotous reception in 1913. It is still an arrestingly strange piece, evoking lust, fear, and violence with a savagery rare in orchestral music. Lust, ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

Deep into the summer doldrums, the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra - the “Symphony for Everyone” - forges ahead in high gear to kick off its 15th season with a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

FORT WORTH — Both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras paired related works on concerts this week. Following the DSO’s Austro-German program, reviewed separately, the FWSO on Friday presented ...

Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev's powerful, nearly maniacal interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a lesson in controlled chaos. He... The Rite of Spring sparked the most famous riot in music ...

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...