KPBS FM Radio Film Review: “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” By Beth Accomando Air date: June 17, 2010 HOST INTRO: Coco Chanel was the subject of a recent biopic, and now she’s the subject of another.
Selected by David Epstein, the author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.” ...
As a fan of those large scale compositions called “symphonies,” you have arrived at a crossroads. You can easily identify Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by the first four notes (da-da-da-DAAAAH!), you are ...
As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...
A “long-delayed overhaul” at the St. Petersburg Conservatory has resulted in the rediscovery of an important work by Russian modernist composer Igor Stravinsky after a century-long absence, according ...
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 ...
In May of 2013, composer Igor Stravinsky's landmark work "The Rite of Spring" turns 100 years old. Already, there have been conferences and performances all over the world to celebrate. Why is this ...
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 ...
A Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does ...
At the intersection of art and culture and of style and genius, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky met and loved each other for a few madly passionate seasons before going separate ways to become legends ...
It’s hard today to imagine a ballet causing an audience to riot, but that’s what happened 100 years ago when the well-heeled Parisian spectators at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées revolted against Igor ...
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