The legendary frontman plays all the characters in a new recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Critic Lloyd Schwartz calls it a seriously enjoyable addition to the Stravinsky catalog.

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Coco Chanel’s and Igor Stravinsky’s accomplishments don’t have much in common. The name of Chanel ...

Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...

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The month long Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts includes dance, theater, music, painting, poetry, even trapeze acts. It can be bewildering to navigate. The idea for PIFA began as a ...

Editor;s Note: Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his ...

When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim ...

As its title promises, Gallic bio-drama “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” delivers an impressive combo of sights and sounds in its depiction of the brief, tumultuous affair the two artists had in the ...

THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...