Igor Stravinsky News

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 .

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.