SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...

It’s hard today to imagine a ballet causing an audience to riot, but that’s what happened 100 years ago when the well-heeled Parisian spectators at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées revolted against Igor ...

Flutist Hubert Laws is one of many jazz artists to have recorded an adaptation of themes from The Rite of Spring. A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become ...

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 ...

To mark the birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882) classical host Cale Wiggins sets the record straight about riots and The Rite. Stravinsky's monumental work will be ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On May 29, 1913 a riot-inducing work of art, Rite of Spring, was performed at a Paris theater. One ...

Minnesota Orchestra; Stanislav Skrowaczewski, conductor; recorded on October 3, 1977 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Candide-Vox CT 2212 (cassette); QCE 31108 (long-play record); Vox ...

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