For three months this winter a thin. baggy-eyed Russian, considered by many to be one of the greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New ...

When the tiny old man walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan’s Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked ...

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 festival started Wednesday with a discussion of Russia during Stravinsky's time that put the rest of the festival in context. The festival moves to Fox Tucson Theatre tonight for a screening of ...

It’s not overstating the case to say that Igor Stravinsky changed the world. With the 1910 premiere of “The Firebird,” the Russian composer became an overnight sensation. Created for Ballets Russes, ...

The Pennsylvania Ballet is celebrating famed Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky this spring with its All Stravinsky program at the Merriam Theater. The program will be set to four diverse and ...

Very seldom does the opportunity come along to immerse one's self in the life and work of a major American composer; to indulge in the private and public face of a complicated and somewhat tortured ...