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Hace 3 días · Robert Spano returns to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to revisit Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Over many years, the man has helped to define the music; but the music has also come to define the man.:: Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022.
Hace 4 días · Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work revolutionized musical thought and sensibility in the 20th century. His fame rests on a few works, notably The Rite of Spring (1913), wherein he presented a new concept of music involving constantly changing rhythms and metric imbalances, a brilliantly original orchestration, and ...
- Igor Stravinsky’s collaborations with Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, including The Firebird (1910), made him known overnight. Other composi...
- Igor Stravinsky’s father, Fyodor, was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and Igor’s mother, Anna, was a talented pianist. Igor...
- Igor Stravinsky studied law and philosophy at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1905. While studying, he showed some of his mus...
- Igor Stravinsky was always in mediocre health—he suffered from tuberculosis in the 1930s and a stroke in 1956—but he continued full-scale creative...
Hace 3 días · Primo: Karolyn ChengSecondo: Daniel SunRecorded in Campbell Recital Hall for Karolyn's sophomore recital.0:00 PART I: A KISS OF THE EARTH0:05 Introduction3:2...
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Hace 2 días · Besides his current leadership in Fort Worth, Spano remains a force at the Aspen Music Festival and will seize the reins of Washington National Opera in 2025. For now, though, he is excited to ...
Hace 1 día · These were the words of Igor Stravinsky in a letter to French composer Florent Schmitt regarding the latter's La tragédie de Salomé. Originally written in 1907 as an hour-long ballet and, for reasons of restricted performing space at the Théâtre des Arts, scored for just twenty instruments, it was subsequently reworked by Schmitt as an ...
Hace 5 días · When Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring premiered on May 29, 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, it ignited one of the most infamous riots in music history. This groundbreaking work, with its complex rhythms, dissonant harmonies, and primitive themes, challenged the audience’s expectations of ballet and orchestral music.
Hace 1 día · Stravinsky, especially after the scandalous 1913 Paris premiere of his revolutionary ballet ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ (The Rite of Spring) was labelled the ‘enfant terrible’ of classical music of his time. The famous auction house Christie’s called Souza the ‘enfant terrible’ of Modern Indian art.
