Classical Season with a flourish worthy of its muse, The Firebird, transforming Jones Hall and Corinthian Houston into an ...

Stravinsky's score for the ballet "The Firebird" established his career, but he was a last-ditch choice for the assignment after a handful of other composers had failed to come through. For the first ...

In the early 1900s, a relatively unknown Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballet Russes. Stravinsky wasn’t Diaghilev’s first choice — many ...

Riccardo Muti and the CSO open the 2023/24 Season with two pieces capturing the fairy-tale splendor of Russian music. Stravinsky’s suite from The Firebird uses a dynamic orchestral palette to depict ...

Conductor Kedrick Armstrong dives headlong into his second year leading the Oakland Symphony at 8 p.m. Friday in the ...

Symphony orchestras often market their concerts on the strength of the most popular work on the program. So it was Thursday night at Jones Hall when guest conductor Bramwell Tovey led the Houston ...

Oakland Symphony Music Director Kedrick Armstrong began his second season with an eclectic program culminating with ...

Beginning Sept. 19, the Houston Symphony is doing something relatively rare: performing Igor Stravinsky’s entire 47-minute score — instead of the more commonly played, 20-minute suite — for his famous ...

The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) will present its final concert of the 57th season, on June 9-10, titled “Stravinsky Circus!” with Music Director Steven Schick leading the orchestra in a program ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue Symphony Orchestra will perform "The Firebird" during a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 1) at the Long Center in Lafayette. "The Firebird," written by Igor ...

It has been an incredibly busy summer at the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. Our 41st year has proven to be another landmark so we gathered our members at an annual Kickoff Cookout to announce our ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In THE FIREBIRD, Ballet Arizona's Artistic Director Ib Andersen outlines his ...