Balanchine and Stravinsky’s take on the legend of sun god Apollo shone at Lincoln Center, with Robert Fairchild in the title role and Sterling Hyltin as one of his three muses. Paul Kolnik There’s no ...
Igor Stravinsky is most famous for his ballets. His music is linked to the Ballet Russes and the choreographer George Balanchine. But not everything he wrote was meant for professional dancers. The ...
One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...
The most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don’t get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard ...