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 ...

Marking a pivotal moment in his early career, Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet The Firebird brought the composer international attention with a score that contrasted lyricism with sounds that challenged ...

It’s that classic story of boy meets mythical bird, bird gives boy magical feather, boy rescues girl from evil sorcerer king with bird’s help. “And then of course, they get married and live happily ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Strangely, it's the most familiar part of the tone poem - the macabre, witches' ...

The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

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 ...

What might at first sight seem to be an enterprising selection of piano transcriptions of some of the key orchestral works of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century turns out to be ...

His father died when he was very young. And while Ravi Coltrane now plays jazz, it was his mother's love for a very different kind of music that provided the childhood soundtrack for him and his ...

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 ...