This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

On May 29, 1913, a musical meteor hit Europe and set off shockwaves that changed the course of music forever. That meteor was Igor Stravinsky's orchestral music for the ballet, "The Rite of Spring" ...

I can’t imagine how difficult is to perform the steps the Joffrey dancers execute so dramatically in "The Rite of Spring," or how hard it is to play the score. But even that must be easier than ...

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 ...

When the Joffrey Ballet debuted its reconstructed “The Rite of Spring” in Los Angeles in fall 1987, it received a seismic welcome — a 5.9 on the Richter scale, to be exact. The morning after “Rite’s” ...

“The Rite of Spring” is a legend, one of the greatest, most infamous succès des scandales of modernist art. In Paris, on May 29, 1913, a hundred years ago, the Ballets Russes debuted “Le Sacre du ...

"Fantasia" wasn't a huge hit when it was first released 75 years ago (on November 13, 1940). Since then, however, over the course of multiple re-releases, the Disney feature has earned a reputation as ...

This is a recording of a jazz trio playing the score to a 101-year-old ballet. It is not a "jazzing the classics" record or a "fantasia on the themes of" sort of project. It is a band translating one ...