It’s not overstating the case to say that Igor Stravinsky changed the world. With the 1910 premiere of “The Firebird,” the Russian composer became an overnight sensation. Created for Ballets Russes, ...

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 ...

The festival started Wednesday with a discussion of Russia during Stravinsky's time that put the rest of the festival in context. The festival moves to Fox Tucson Theatre tonight for a screening of ...

For three months this winter a thin. baggy-eyed Russian, considered by many to be one of the greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New ...

By the 1910s, Igor Stravinsky had established himself as the legendary composer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring remain Stravinsky’s best-known ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with Morning Edition music commentator Miles Hoffman about some of the great classical composers who immigrated to America during the last century. Miles plays some unusual ...