The shocking music and dance of Stravinsky’s ballet ‘The Rite of Spring’ provoked a riot and revolutionized music for the 20th century. TUNE IN TONIGHT: at 5PM PDT, join us for a FREE YouTube premiere event streaming ‘Keeping Score | Stravinsky: ‘The Rite of Spring’’ as MTT & the Orchestra explore the fascinating story behind the highly charged & confrontational score that shocked the Western world. SF Symphony musicians & documentary crew will be live, providing fun insights & answering your qu

Stravinsky on his Rite of Spring 🎶🌿 | Fondation Igor Stravinsky

Bach - Fugue from Fantasie and Fugue in A minor BWV 904 Vitaly Starikov, piano | History of Music

Stravinsky - Second movement from Psalms Symphony Igor Stravinsky, conductor 1963 Budapest Today we begin our journey into the fascinating world of 20th-century counterpoint. Our first stop is Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (1930), second movement. Here, Stravinsky builds a powerful fugal passage, starting with the male voices and gradually expanding into a dense contrapuntal texture. What makes this example so striking is how the composer takes the traditional Baroque fugue technique and

Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka ballet premiered #onthisday in 1911 in Paris, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company 🩰🎶 The story, which centers around a devilish puppet, brings together music, dance, and incredible scenography in a spectacular production. Discover more about this work and the legacy of the Ballets Russes in the dedicated boxset: https://w.lnk.to/dbrFA | Warner Classics & Erato