One of the century’s great composers makes his home in Hollywood—surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they’re missing ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Whatever their historical validity, the picture of Stravinsky these autobiographical productions conjure up is of ...

Marking a pivotal moment in his early career, Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet The Firebird brought the composer international attention with a score that contrasted lyricism with sounds that challenged ...

The tale goes that the phoenix — the bird of fire — lives for 500 years. When it's ready to die, its nest flames up and a new phoenix rises from the ashes. Igor Stravinsky set this legend to music in ...

Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan’s Town Hall and ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, presented its final performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” on Friday. “The Rite of Spring,” or “Le Sacre du printemps” in its ...

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe At Carnegie Hall, a program of ...