Of his 89 years, Igor Stravinsky spent more than 30 in Los Angeles -- composing, conducting, flirting with the movie industry, participating in the city's growing musical awareness to a greater extent ...

THE letter was businesslike, and Robert Craft never intended it to work out as it did when he sent it, in 1947, to Igor Stravinsky in Los Angeles. He was already “ensorcelated” by his music, ever ...

One of the century’s great composers makes his home in Hollywood—surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they’re missing ...

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 widow, Marianne ...

Igor Stravinsky, born 126 years ago today in Oranienbaum, Russia (near St. Petersburg), was punk rock before his time. At the 1913 Paris premiere of his infamous Rite of Spring ballet – a depiction of ...

In doing The Rake’s Progress of Igor Stravinsky, the New York City Opera tried its hand at a classic of musical modernism. Despite an unsuitable set design and a less than stellar musical execution, ...

BroadStage, as part of its Sunday Morning Music / Santa Monica series, presents Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, narrated by renowned pianist, actor, and playwright Hershey Felder and featuring a musical ...

A story of love, rejection and murder, told in music. Petroushka — by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote this music for a ballet in 1911. The concert took place at this summer's Grand Teton Music ...

Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy. SYMPHONIC, ETC. Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra . (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with ...

LEONARD BERNSTEIN AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC- THE CREATIVE PERFORMER , Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Igor Stravinsky. Originally aired on January 31, 1960 on CBS Television as part of its Ford ...