The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, presented its final performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” on Friday. “The Rite of Spring,” or “Le Sacre du printemps” in its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rites of Spring was a 1913 ballet by Igor Stravinsky that was highly modern and sparked a riot in Paris on May 29, 1913, between traditionalists, who were appalled by its modernity, and the ...

Two daring jazz improvisers take on a cherished hundred-year-old classical ballet masterpiece with radical roots on The Rite of Spring: Spectre d'un songe. Igor Stravinsky was fresh off the success of ...

The DSO's Brahms and Bruckner were linked only by proximity of premieres, but Stravinsky studied with the older Russian composer, and learned a lot of orchestral tricks from him. They're quite obvious ...

Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a ...

Western Piedmont Symphony will present MASTERWORKS: THE RITE OF SPRING, on Saturday, January 25. This season, the regional professional orchestra celebrates 60 years of music in the foothills of ...

The transformation of an established classic can be a risky endeavor, and the effort doesn’t always pay off. Who wants to see a great, stark black-and-white film—“The Best Years of Our Lives,” say, or ...

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...

Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien understanding.