"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" opens with the fierce and furious premiere of the Russian composer's "The Rite of Spring" in a Paris concert hall in 1913. The audience's animated response does not ...

Among the most durable compositions of Igor Stravinsky will surely be L’Histoire du Soldat, that brilliantly macabre musical setting of the legend of a soldier who trades his soul to the devil in ...

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 ...

Did Igor Stravinsky desecrate the National Anthem? Others have done far worse. I think all of us can agree...the Star Spangled Banner is one of the most difficult songs to sing. Many have tried and ...

New York. New York’s Metropolitan Opera closed a month ago but one night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three ...