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Thursday Jul 9 | SanLuisObispo.com

Music: Classical concerts around the county

During the Hearst Castle's heyday, music was part of the entertainment lavished on celebrities such as Charles Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Joan Crawford and Charles Lindbergh.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky, Bruch, Max Bruch, Mozart, Texas

Mon Jul 06, 2009

The Daily Star

Modern ballet compelling enough to compete with the old stones

BAALBECK: One by one, the 37 dancers of the Bejart Ballet Lausanne trickled onto stage to warm up.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Classical, Vivaldi, Antonio Vivaldi, Stravinsky

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

BBC Proms: under the trance of Stravinsky

Primal energy: the English National Ballet performs Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' In the landscape of music there are those occasional solitary peaks we call masterpieces.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky

Tue Jun 23, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Today: Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Good morning. Today is the 168th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Russian composer and author Igor Stravinsky.

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Related Topix: Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Classical, Stravinsky, Pop/Rock, Barry Manilow, Manhattan, NY

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Igor Stravinsky

Life and career Stravinsky's father was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and the mixture of the musical, theatrical, and literary spheres in the Stravinsky family household exerted a lasting influence on the composer.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky, New York Metro, Symphony, Arts, Ballet

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Buenos Aires Herald

Google celebrates Igor Stravinsky with a new logo

Google's website celebrates Igor Stravinsky's 127th birth anniversary through a new artistic logo.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology

Wed Jun 17, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Google does Stravinsky | Tom Service

Happy birthday, Igor! You know you've pricked the popular consciousness when you become the subject of a piece of Google -artistry. Today is Igor Stravinsky's birthday, and it has inspired Google to create an effete, sub-Chagall image to surround their lettering.

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Related Topix: Classical

About.com

Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky

Like Beethoven to the Romantic Period, Stravinsky was a 20th Century music pioneer best know for his works, The Firebird , Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring .

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Ventura County Star Top Stories

Tuneful Music Festival is uniquely Ojai

In 1955, Igor Stravinsky came, even though his dressing room was a tent. In 1967, Pierre Boulez came, even though he had to postpone conducting a concert until a Santa Paula train finished whistling by.

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Related Topix: Ojai, CA, Classical, Pierre Boulez, Santa Paula, CA, Aaron Copland, Simon Rattle

Sun Jun 07, 2009

Channelnewsasia.com

Opera whirred free

SINGAPORE: Few classical music lovers are aware of this - up-and-coming Singapore conductor Joshua Tan, who won second prize in the prestigious Dmitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in Greece last year, used to be a part-time deejay at MediaCorp's Symphony 92.4. "This was back in 2005 and looking back, it was a rather fun ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Symphony, Stravinsky, National University

Thu May 28, 2009

NPR

Dancers on stage in Stravinsky's 'Petrushka'; CREDIT: Fyodor Savintsev/Corbis

The music Stravinsky wrote for the ballet Petrushka is layered with ideas of the real and the artificial.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky, Arts, Ballet, Dance

Thu May 21, 2009

Art Voice

Stravinsky's The Soldiers Tale Production Reborn

The Buffalo Chamber Players, a group consisting mainly of musicians from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra along with talented local free-lancers, gave their first concert at the Buffalo Seminary in 2007.

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Related Topix: Classical, Stravinsky, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Brahms

Thu Apr 30, 2009

The Santa Barbara Independent

So Long, Salonen

PEKKA, WE HARDLY KNEW YE: Ita TMs been a not-so-quiet and bittersweet month at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where the Los Angeles Philharmonic has bid adieu to Esa-Pekka Salonen , who has now officially ended his enlightened reign as the visionary maestro of that orchestra.

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Related Topix: Classical, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Stravinsky, Symphony, Arts, Santa Barbara, CA

Sun Apr 26, 2009

The Gadsden Times

Dance, music groups collaborate again

Published: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 9:21 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 9:21 p.m. After the success of their production 'Cathedrals of Winter' in December, the Downtown Dance Conservatory and the Etowah Youth Orchestra's electric string ensemble again will collaborate at the Pitman Theatre in downtown Gadsden.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Carl Orff, Classical, Orff, Stravinsky

Fri Apr 24, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Joffrey taps a quartet of classics for spring program

"Four dances, each evoking a very different perspective on love, and each revealing something intriguing about the choreographer who created them." That is how Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater describes the company's spring program, set to run Wednesday through May 10 at the Auditorium Theatre.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Wedding, Classical, Stravinsky, Oakland, IL, Sports, Entertainment

Wed Apr 22, 2009

South Bend Tribune

Symphony increases its range

By ANDREW S. HUGHES Tribune Staff Writer In March 2008, the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra performed Igor Stravinsky's theatrical 'The Soldier's Tale' as part of a concert program that also included Beethoven's Symphony No.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, Nashville Metro, Vanderbilt University, Theater

Mon Apr 20, 2009

StarTribune

'Rite of Spring' at Minnesota Dance Theater

When Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky presented "Le Sacre du Printemps" in 1908, the crowd at the Thtre des Champs-lyses broke out in a riot.

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Related Topix: Arts, Dance, Classical, Stravinsky, Ballet, Modern Dance, Entertainment

Sat Apr 18, 2009

About Last Night

TT: Tinkering with beauty

The extensive changes that Arthur Laurents made in the new Broadway revival of West Side Story have inspired me to write a "Sightings" column for Saturday's Wall Street Journal about creative artists who decide to tinker with their early works.

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Broadway, Classical, Stravinsky, Arts, Opera

Thu Apr 16, 2009

Las Vegas Sun

Nevada Ballet's renewed passion

The overhaul of the Nevada Ballet Theatre should come as no surprise. The dance company signaled its new direction when it hired Artistic Director James Canfield, who confirmed the change Wednesday by announcing a season bereft of sleepy productions past.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Dance, Classical, Stravinsky, The Future Sound of London, Electronic, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Mon Apr 13, 2009

Women's Wear Daily

Runway Sound Patrol

Fall runway played like one of those TV compilations of Eighties and Nineties hits mixed with quirky live performances ranging from cool jazz to classical bombast.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Rolling Stones, Classical, Stravinsky, The Bad Plus, Jazz

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