The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Composer Alexandre Desplat plays “Happy Birthday to You” on his keyboard — but with a twist: the final note on “you” is higher than in the traditional melody. It’s Igor Stravinsky’s “Greeting Prelude, ...

Among the most durable compositions of Igor Stravinsky will surely be L’Histoire du Soldat, that brilliantly macabre musical setting of the legend of a soldier who trades his soul to the devil in ...

Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene of one of the most astounding opening nights in history. In this episode of Keeping Score ...