A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a jazz standard. The Rite and jazz music at large can be seen as cousins. Roughly contemporaneous, both ...
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 ...
One hundred years ago this week, a ballet premiered that changed the art world. Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps — The Rite of Spring — was first seen by the public on May 29, 1913, in Paris.
SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ethan Iverson is pianist of the genre-bursting jazz trio The Bad Plus. For more than a decade, the group has honed its reputation: playing, say, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” one minute, then hopping to ...
(The) Rite of Spring, '(Le) sacre du printemps' Igor Stravinsky, Composer Zubin Mehta, Conductor Australian World Orchestra Symphony No. 1 Australian World Orchestra Gustav Mahler, Composer Zubin ...
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