The Phoenix Symphony is ending its seasoning a production that combines the music of Igor Stravinsky with songs by artist ...

When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...

KPBS FM Radio Film Review: “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” By Beth Accomando Air date: June 17, 2010 HOST INTRO: Coco Chanel was the subject of a recent biopic, and now she’s the subject of another.

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

Starting today, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will begin a five day performance run one of the all time great “lost works” of music – Igor Stravinsky’s “Chant Funebre” (Funeral Song). The piece ...

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 ...

Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his widow, Marianne ...

'My music is best understood by children and animals,' said Igor Stravinsky. Undaunted, Tom Service seeks the essence of one of the 20th century's most elusive composers. Show more "My music is best ...

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...

As the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death approaches, we should salute a master of emotional restraint and technical skill Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

In Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, a companion piece of sorts to April’s Coco Avant Chanel (both have been bought for the US by Sony Pictures Classics), Jan Kounen presents a lavish but surprisingly ...

At the intersection of art and culture and of style and genius, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky met and loved each other for a few madly passionate seasons before going separate ways to become legends ...