The return of the ballet masterpiece that caused a riot - IN FOCUS: When Pina Bausch premiered her 1975 version of Stravinsky’s controversial ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Germany, audiences were so angry ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On May 29, 1913 a riot-inducing work of art, Rite of Spring, was performed at a Paris theater. One ...

The centennial of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring has been celebrated throughout 2013, but Chicagoans will get the opportunity to take in one of the more unusual and provocative ...

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 ...

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 ...

The performance that almost incited the well-heeled of Paris to a ravenous riot is celebrating its centennial. Even now the pounding score of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring that debuted on May ...

BERKELEY — “The Rite of Spring” is a ballet born of violence. Stravinsky’s score unfurls the furious sudden spring of his native St. Petersburg, the sounds of cracking ice on the river Neva being like ...

Sarah Ioannides, music director and conductor of Tacoma Symphony, leads a rehearsal of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” on Monday. Peter Haley [email protected] There were no riots in the ...