If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

This is FRESH AIR. In 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev came to Paris with a company he called the Ballet Russe and created a sensation that lasted until Diaghilev's death 20 years later.

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...

It's next to impossible to imagine a ballet causing a near riot, but that's what happened 100 years ago when the Ballets Russes debuted The Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913. Sunday night at the Orpheum ...

Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” went on to a career of remarkable peace and ...

Stravinsky Ballets-- No one doubts that Igor Stravinsky’s collaboration with the Ballets Russes early last century set the standards for most of the innovations in dance as an art form. Stravinsky ...

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Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is like the Beethoven’s Fifth of 20th-century classical music. It’s such an iconic work that even if you don’t know it, you probably know it. In 1940, Walt Disney’s ...

Nature is in the air - and on the ground and over the water - in Houston Ballet's "The Rite of Spring" program. Edwaard Liang's "Murmuration" is the most kinetically thrilling new work the company has ...