Of the three short ballets in Pacific Northwest Ballet's latest rep, "Firebird" is gorgeous but a bit flat, while "Little mortal jump" and "Red Angels" still thrill.
From Wagner’s ghostly ship to the fiery brilliance of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra says this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Judith Weir’s salute to the Indian monsoon kicked off a concert on nature and folk themes, Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son brought poetic flourishes to works by Bartók and Finzi, while the magical Firebir ...
Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts was transformed this weekend into a realm where  the fantastical meets the formidable. Victoria Ballet Theatre’s latest double bill, “Seuss & Stravinsky”, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Strangely, it's the most familiar part of the tone poem - the macabre, witches' ...
If we are to believe Stravinsky’s opinions as expressed in his writings, we could easily conclude that the composer would not have approved of Olli Mustonen’s performances of the three Stravinsky ...
It’s that classic story of boy meets mythical bird, bird gives boy magical feather, boy rescues girl from evil sorcerer king with bird’s help. “And then of course, they get married and live happily ...