The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a ...

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In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

You know that smell when spring is coming? An earthy mustiness hangs over the city in March and April as the cold begins to crack and pops of green push through previously snow-covered soil. Seemingly ...

The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...

At the top of the evening Saturday night, the affable new conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Michael Christie took the microphone and reminded audiences of the riots that erupted at the 1913 Paris ...

Two daring jazz improvisers take on a cherished hundred-year-old classical ballet masterpiece with radical roots on The Rite of Spring: Spectre d'un songe. Igor Stravinsky was fresh off the success of ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...