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 ...

This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” with its crazy, pulsing polyrhythms and pitchy shrieks, has become standard orchestral fare, but it famously was booed when it premiered as a ballet score in Paris ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not long after his shocking ballet, the composer branched out into a broad range of styles, ushering in new musical trends far from the violent... Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite Of Spring' Counterrevolution ...