In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...
*The Rite of Spring* helped set the stage for 20th century music. Characterized by its innovative orchestration and ferocious polyrhythms, Stravinsky’s ballet score allows individual players and ...
The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...
Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...
Consider Tulsa Ballet’s first mixed-bill program of the 2013-2014 season as a prime example of how eloquent a wordless art form can be. Of course ballet can tell a story –– that’s one of the prime ...
Composer Igor Stravinsky’s landmark work The Rite of Spring, though commonly performed in concert halls, was written as a ballet. Last year this composition, considered one of the most groundbreaking ...
The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...
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 ...