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Composer | Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) |
Period | Early 20th century |
Work type | Orchestral |
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Stravinsky's Nightingale takes flight to open the Adelaide Festival
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A piecemeal evening of high musical values as the Adelaide Festival opens with short Stravinsky pieces rather than the usual substantial opera.
Rhythmic precision: Foxy Stravinsky from Salonen
A wedding feast, a man in drag and an outwitted fox were unlikely accomplices in the second concert in the Philharmonia's series Stravinsky: Myths and Rituals.
Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta
Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps.