Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...

The month long Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts includes dance, theater, music, painting, poetry, even trapeze acts. It can be bewildering to navigate. The idea for PIFA began as a ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

The classical music world went nuts when a Russian musicologist discovered Igor Stravinsky's long-lost Funeral Song, Op. 5, at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory during a move in 2015. Nobody had heard ...

Editor;s Note: Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his ...

Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Which may explain why the ...

As its title promises, Gallic bio-drama “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” delivers an impressive combo of sights and sounds in its depiction of the brief, tumultuous affair the two artists had in the ...

At this year’s Salzburg Festival, the German artist has designed marionettes for a troupe that usually performs “The Sound of Music.” By Ben Miller and Laetitia Vançon Kate Soper’s tender, whimsical ...

As its title promises, Gallic bio-drama “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” delivers an impressive combo of sights and sounds in its depiction of the brief, tumultuous affair the two artists had in the ...