About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

The first time I heard “The Rite of Spring” I was 13 or 14. As I remember it, the record was lying around the house, in a sleeve but without a jacket. I guess it was my mother’s, though she didn’t ...

(The) Rite of Spring, '(Le) sacre du printemps' Igor Stravinsky, Composer Zubin Mehta, Conductor Australian World Orchestra Symphony No. 1 Australian World Orchestra Gustav Mahler, Composer Zubin ...

Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring," written for the Ballets Russe, premiered in Paris on 29 May 1913. Puccini called it "the creation of a madman": it seems to have held a fascination for jazz ...

BERKELEY — “The Rite of Spring” is a ballet born of violence. Stravinsky’s score unfurls the furious sudden spring of his native St. Petersburg, the sounds of cracking ice on the river Neva being like ...