'It's Orwellian': Everyone in UK could be given a personal 'carbon allowance'... Nov 14, 2009
Igor Stravinsky on November 14, 2009 at 08:46 AM. To "anyone who has sat in their garage with the car on" - do you know the difference between carbon dioxide and carbon MONOXIDE. (The Drudge Report)
Conductor and pianist to make BSO debuts Nov 12, 2009
22, and Igor Stravinsky s Petrushka (the 1947 version). The last piece is about puppets who come to life at a fair in St. Petersburg. (Boston Globe)
Igor Stravinsky Opera The Soldier's... Oct 31, 2009
Igor Stravinsky Opera The Soldier's Tale. Igor Stravinsky Opera The Soldier's Tale ... The Soldier's Tale, a morality play by Igor Stravinsky. (Suite101.com)
Another Season of “Ovations” Performances for Calaveras this Winter Oct 28, 2009
Saturday, March 6 3:00 pm Sixty members will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Peter Tchaikovsky, Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin, Reinhold Gliere, Dance of the Russian Sailors, and Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite. Guest conductor is Andrei Gorbatenko from the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
ALLERTON SPIRIT: Everyone she meets is a friend Oct 21, 2009
Following her formal training, Mary spent the next three years as a professional singer in New York, singing under the name, Lynn Lucas in choral groups and performing with legendary conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Igor Stravinsky. Her sister also was a professional singer. (Hingham Journal, MA)
New conductors in LA, NY pose a challenge to the BSO’s agenda Oct 18, 2009
This year, the festival will look at the Russian roots of a self-styled cosmopolitan, Igor Stravinsky. The Slavic sound-wizard Valerie Gergiev will conduct nothing less than eight different all-Stravinsky programs (several featuring the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus), making this an exceptionally meaty detour in the season s journey. (Boston Globe)
* DANCE : A little typhoon music Aug 7, 2009
He insists a combination of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Igor Stravinsky is not as strange as it seems. I chose them because Mozart is 18th century, the best cultural time in Europe, the Baroque era. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Chanel hopping Jul 25, 2009
The made-for US TV film, Coco Chanel, starring Shirley MacLaine, the as-yet-unreleased Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky movie, which closed this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the French film Coco Before Chanel (Coco Avant Chanel) which opens in the UK this week ... " Coco Before Chanel and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky are both backed by the famous fashion brand. Chanel has been compared with another French heroine, Edith Piaf Tautou and Anna Mouglalis (who plays the designer in Coco Chanel &... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bernstein biography Jul 11, 2009
Composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Ernst Krenek were shedding 19th-century compositional constraints to create music that incorporated jazz and other forms. Bernstein embraced these changes. (Boston Globe)
Dance and Modern Art Jul 3, 2009
German Expressionist and Der Blaue Reiter member August Macke (1887-1914) created many striking works before his untimely death in World War I. Macke s 1912 Ballets Russes captured a scene from a production staged by the vibrant Russian ballet troupe of the same name, a group which involved such dance luminaries as Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky, composer Igor Stravinsky and artists Leon Bakst and Pablo Picasso to name just a few of the company s many talents. In Macke s Ballets Russes... (Suite101.com)
Pierre Boulez to Receive Inamori Foundation's 25th Annual Kyoto Prize for Lifetime Achievement in "Arts and Philosophy" Jun 19, 2009
His works from the 1950s (including Structures for Two Pianos, Book I and Le marteau sans matre) further developed the methodologies of Olivier Messiaen and Ren Leibowitz, under whom he had studied, while creating strong links to major musical trends forged by such artists as Claude Debussy, Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky. In later works, Mr. Boulez adopted the concept of aleatory, or controlled chance. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Chanel's most exquisite collection Jun 18, 2009
Cocos appreciation of Slavonic culture extended to perfumes (fashioning her own version which she called Cuir de Russie), the ballet and music by notably one of the most influential composers of the 20th Century, Igor Stravinsky. In fact, there is a movie about their association, in addition to the one about Chanels life before she became celebrated, coming out later this year. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal embarks on historic Middle East tour May 25, 2009
In Noces, a highly popular piece on the company's tours, 24 dancers strut and clash brutally at a delirious Balkan peasant wedding, expressionistic and intense, to the haunting music of Igor Stravinsky. "Noces is extraordinary," said The New York Times. (Canada Newswire)
Nicholas Maw; brought 'Sophie's Choice' to stage May 23, 2009
He attended a progressive Quaker boarding school, where a teacher introduced him to the works of Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, and Maurice Ravel. After studying at London's Royal Academy of Music, Mr. Maw won a scholarship in 1958 to study in Paris with the composer and teacher Nadia Boulanger. (Boston Globe)
In Ballets Russes, celebrating the power to move May 16, 2009
Together these artists - including Igor Stravinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pablo Picasso, Leonide Massine, Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, and Leon Bakst - blew the fourth wall of ballet wide open. Which is why they can still reach so deep inside us today. (Boston Globe)
Winona cathedral hosts Russian ensemble for third time May 13, 2009
Composers include Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Pavel Tchesnokov, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Igor Stravinsky. I hope people will learn the richness and powerfulness of the Russian culture, Tupitsyn said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Missoula symphony season open to the elements May 11, 2009
That s paired with Igor Stravinsky s colorful ballet score from The Firebird, Claude Debussy s beloved Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun, and Ludwig Van Beethoven s Coriolan Overture. It s been almost a decade since the orchestra has played The Firebird, and Butorac said it will be exciting to run the orchestra through that score on the heels of this season s challenging exploration of two other 20th century Russian classics, Sergei Prokofiev s suite from the ballet Romeo and Juliet and Dmitri... (Missoulian, MT)
Weapon of choice Mar 9, 2009
Citing influences as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, German painter Neo Rauch and comedian Andy Kaufman, the band has definitely found the common ground between the visceral and cerebral. With rave reviews received by Mirrored, featuring the head-turning single Atlas, and favourites like Tonto and Race In, Battles has amassed quite a sizeable following abroad. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Ballerina recalls a golden age Feb 25, 2009
" During her career, Patterson also danced for Igor Stravinsky, the Russian-born composer considered by many to be the most influential composer of the 20th-century. The arts were in her background. Her father, Ambrose Patterson, became part of the Paris arts scene in 1898 and exhibited at the first Salon d'Automne exhibitions. The 1905 Salon - at which Henri Matisse and the Fauves (French for "The Wild Beasts," a short-lived and loose group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works... (Ambler Gazette, PA)
New Jersey Opera revises cast for 'Die Fledermaus' Feb 13, 2009
With a repertoire ranging from Igor Stravinsky to Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, Vroman has been a guest soloist with orches tras and opera companies in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Vancouver and Boston. On the stage, she has played both Fantine and Cosette in "Les Miserables" and garnered Theatre Critics' awards for her record-breaking run as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera.". (NJ.com -- Times)
Love Stories Feb 13, 2009
The final work on this Saturday s program is The Rite of Spring, with music composed in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky for a work first commissioned by the great impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. It shocked its audiences then, and in that tradition, Vanaev has given the now-classic work a fresh and startling new interpretation with offbeat imagery and wild rebellion. (Westerly Sun, RI)
The Rite of Spring Feb 12, 2009
The year was 1912 when Russian composer Igor Stravinsky teamed up with fellow countryman and ballet producer Sergei Diaghilev to write the music for what was to be one of the most controversial ballets in history. Throughout their careers, Stravinsky and Diaghilev teamed up a number of times to produce a total of five ballets, but The Rite of Spring was the only one that elicited an uproar from the public. (Suite101.com)
Shockingly new and surprisingly familiar Feb 8, 2009
The four non-pop selections on For All I Care are drawn from works by Igor Stravinsky, Gyorgy Ligeti and Milton Babbitt the latter two derived from impossibly virtuosic piano pieces. But rather than reduce the pieces to "jazz tunes" by way of swing phrasing, the trio condenses each into a string of essential themes that are reharmonized and improvised, creating something new while retaining the overall thrust and structure of the original. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
