About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...

The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance. Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite' One ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

The first time I heard “The Rite of Spring” I was 13 or 14. As I remember it, the record was lying around the house, in a sleeve but without a jacket. I guess it was my mother’s, though she didn’t ...

Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” turned 100 years old on May 29. Orchestras around the world and around Southern California are marking the occasion with performances of the once impossible-to-play ...

Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring," written for the Ballets Russe, premiered in Paris on 29 May 1913. Puccini called it "the creation of a madman": it seems to have held a fascination for jazz ...