Lebrecht Weekly | John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
When did John Adams become John Adams? Around 1995, according to his own narrative, when he broke with repetitive minimalism and found a more variegated…
Browsing: Stravinsky
This Week in Montreal: March 6 to 12 : Another Brick In The Wall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Violons du Roy
Monday, March 6 Two quartets at Pro musica: Created in the seventies at Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has become one of the most…
This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Gounod & Stravinsky
Today marks the anniversary of Gounod’s (1818) and Stravinsky’s (1882) births. Winner of the 1839 Prix de Rome, Gounod studied at the Paris Conservatory. His…
Video of the Day – Keeping Score: Stravinsky & MTT
Video Link: HereOn the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps, here is an excerpt from an…
Austin Symphony Takes Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring “Beyond the Score”
by Paul E. RobinsonStravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (the Rite of Spring)Gerard McBurney, narratorRobert Faires, actorRick Rowley, actorAustin Symphony/Peter Bay, conductorDell Hall, Long Center for the…
Austin Symphony and Conspirare Partner to Present Psalm Settings by Stravinsky and Bernstein
by Paul RobinsonMaestro Peter BayBach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565*Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms**Bach-Stokowski: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582**Bernstein: Chichester…
