About a year ago, as the Music Center was anticipating its current dance season and the Joffrey Ballet’s return to Los Angeles, Thor Steingraber, the vice president of programming, got to thinking ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...

Sarah Ioannides, music director and conductor of Tacoma Symphony, leads a rehearsal of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” on Monday. Peter Haley phaley@thenewstribune.com There were no riots in the ...

‘The Rite of Spring.” Considered scandalous at its premier on May 29, 1913, it quickly wormed its way into the repertoire. Classical Music host Cale Wiggins, with the help of Maestro Marin Alsop, and ...

A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a jazz standard. The Rite and jazz music at large can be seen as cousins. Roughly contemporaneous, both ...

The first time I heard “The Rite of Spring” I was 13 or 14. As I remember it, the record was lying around the house, in a sleeve but without a jacket. I guess it was my mother’s, though she didn’t ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...