Igor Stravinsky

...has poured heart, soul and a dazzling degree of invention into its complex yet playful arrangements. At times, it sounds as though Igor Stravinsky and Carl Stalling, the celebrated composer of music for Warner Bros cartoons, are locking...

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...you to get a job. And some of the best slept with Diaghilev. " The BBC ballet season includes a specially commissioned new film of Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring with the Balletboyz on BBC Three and a film examining the artistic and...

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...artists needed to dumb down their performances for the gaming crowd. After all, does scotch and soda really mix with Ludwig van Beethoven and Igor Stravinsky? Turns out they do, according to Itzhak Perlman. The violin virtuoso, conductor...

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...Tortelier is replacing Sir Andrew Davis, who has withdrawn from this set of concerts due to family illness. The updated program includes Stravinsky's "Firebird'' Suite, Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,'' and Brahms's Violin...

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...Frederic Chopin's "Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise for Piano & Orchestra" drifted through the house. Then came the "Gavotta" from Igor Stravinsky's "Pulcinella," with clarinets and oboes in delightful harmony. Then Mozart's "Haffner"...

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...far ahead of the beat, but not consistently enough that a musician could plan entrances around that fact. In the Stravinsky, he seemed more concerned with showing every beat than drawing out the magical sounds of this dazzling score. A...

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...were brilliant and merit special applause. The opening movement begins with an eerie passage in the low strings that is reminiscent of Stravinsky's "Firebird." The movement alternates between delicacy and power. The orchestra exhibited...

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...in a duet with Pelaez was one of the evening's highlights. If there's a complaint, it's that the tempos of the recorded music by Igor Stravinsky seemed to drag, particularly in the duet for Mayo Sugano and Jenna McClintock as the muses...

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...remain the same. On May 29 1913, the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes unveiled a radical new work composed by Stravinsky, with choreography by Nijinsky. The discordant sounds from the orchestra pit were matched by the...

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...tissue-like fabric, puffy shoulders and sleeves that ended with black feathers. He performed a program to Stravinsky's Firebird that, he thought when it was being developed, "is not me." On top of that, he had to leave his quadruple...

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