Stravinsky News

The phone rang Wednesday and a voice came roaring through the receiver as if shot from a cannon: 'Mr. Stryker, this is Stephen Sondheim!' At 79, Sondheim, one of America's greatest living composers, doesn't give many interviews.

Last Thursday, under the direction of Robert Spano, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed two monumental pieces of the classical repertoire.

Christmas, Islington's Little Angel Theatre is presenting John Agard's Petrushka - from November 21, 2009 to January 31, 2010.

The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker will perform a solo piano concert, "Leaves of Gold," on Wednesday, Nov.

Spooked by the thought of finding something to do for Halloween? Have no fear. We can scare up a few options.

Michael Clark, the forner bad-boy of British dance - now a world-class choreographer - talks about his extraordinary career and his eagerly-awaited new work Come, Been and Gone.

A scene from Commedia, from Morphoses by the Wheeldon Company at Sadler's Wells.

IN 1969, Peter Darrell was invited to move his company, Western Ballet Theatre, from Bristol to Scotland, and Scotland's national dance company was born.

Here's a few of the music opportunities that can be found in the Knoxville area this weekend.

Robert Everett-Green Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 12:43PM EDT 1 947 Stravinsky sees William Hogarth's pictorial narrative, A Rake's Progress , at the Art Institute of Chicago, and imagines "a series of operatic scenes" based on them.

Director Robert Lepage's The Nightingale & Other Short Fables is an all-Stravinsky cabaret/concert with the resources of opera to back it up, and the result is dazzling.

Ushering in the second performance in the Moxley Carmichael 2009-10 Masterworks Series, Maestro Lucas Richman and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will present a showcase of orchestral music at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Oct.

Building a classical concert around a particular theme can be a tricky proposition.

The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ballets Russes has been celebrated with revivals and commemorative premieres around the world this year. Yet it was well on its way to sneaking by unnoticed in Washington. That is, until the Richard Alston Dance Company, an appealing 11-member modern dance troupe, arrived from England.

You were expecting, perhaps, that any tribute to one of the greatest ballet institutions in the history of the art form would come from a ballet company? That would have been a logical thing for any one of the several classical troupes who paid us visits this year to do. None did. So much the better: Alston's bracingly fresh and poignant take on the Ballets Russes one-act 'Petrushka,' performed Saturday at George Mason University, was an insightful look into the effect of artistic demands and celebrity on one of the most famous members of the avant-garde group.

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will be performing in the "environs" of the Twin Cities during the rest of October, but that doesn't lessen the unique variety of what audiences are going to hear during three weeks of concerts.

Joshua Newton wants you to know he doesn't write classical music. "That term has boogie men attached to it," he says.

Domenico Luciano and Paris Opera Ballet star Marie Agnès Gillot perform Dominic Walsh's experimental take on Igor Stravinksky's Firebird from Thursday to Saturday at Hobby Center.

Oct. 2 If you go hunting in tights, you're bound to run into something magical, likely a bird.

Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker will perform a solo piano concert, "Leaves of Gold," on Wednesday, Nov.