Months after former music director Esa-Pekka Salonen severed ties with San Francisco Symphony, his work with the orchestra ...

For its 11th season, the Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes will offer three events featuring some of the most ...

When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...

In his fascinating new hour-long documentary, “Stravinsky in Hollywood,” made for European television and now released on DVD by C-Major, Marco Capalbo begins with the oft-quoted statistic that Igor ...

Boston Ballet first performed the piece in 2009, its final season at the Wang Theatre, but the company’s only subsequent ...

Finns are particularly fond of saunas. Santtu Matias Rouvali, 40, a renowned Finnish conductor leading the Philharmonia ...

1979: Chicago Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter won the National League’s Cy Young Award. He was only the second Cubs pitcher to earn the honor at the time. Now there are five (Fergie Jenkins, Sutter, Rick ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought some sheet music back to Paris ...

Editor;s Note: Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his ...

Mark Swed is a music critic for The Times. In 1949, a 26-year-old New York conductor boarded a train for Los Angeles to take a job as musical assistant to Igor Stravinsky. Robert Craft soon became ...

Violinist Zvi Zeitlin passed away in 2012. He had started to write his memoirs and planned to include a chapter on his experiences with Igor Stravinsky. He never got to do this, so his widow, Marianne ...