In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra will perform the music to legendary composer Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The ballet’s 1913 ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

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The DSO's Brahms and Bruckner were linked only by proximity of premieres, but Stravinsky studied with the older Russian composer, and learned a lot of orchestral tricks from him. They're quite obvious ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A hundred years ago this week, the premiere of Russian émigré composer Igor Stravinsky's pounding, pagan, pulsating "The Rite of Spring" caused a near riot in Paris and changed the ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

IT WAS THE BALLET heard 'round the world. In 1913, when "The Rite of Spring" premiered in Paris -- with a pulsating score by Igor Stravinsky and groundbreaking choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky -- the ...