Couldn’t a movie about two great artists have a more compelling title than “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky,” which informs but doesn’t inspire? This French- language film, directed by Jan Kounen, ...
Pacific Symphony will present a program centered on Stravinsky’s The Firebird, conducted by Artistic and Music Director ...
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.
Starting today, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will begin a five day performance run one of the all time great “lost works” of music – Igor Stravinsky’s “Chant Funebre” (Funeral Song). The piece ...
Movie Review | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky' By Stephen Holden A persuasive depiction of the tempestuous affair of two 20th-century titans, Jan Kounen’s “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” comes closer ...
'My music is best understood by children and animals,' said Igor Stravinsky. Undaunted, Tom Service seeks the essence of one of the 20th century's most elusive composers. Show more "My music is best ...
Did Igor Stravinsky desecrate the National Anthem? Others have done far worse. I think all of us can agree...the Star Spangled Banner is one of the most difficult songs to sing. Many have tried and ...
THIS was my first trip to California. I had never wanted to go. Up to the last minute I could not make up my mind whether to give in to the persuasion of a convenient neuralgia and send George ...
Fifty years after his death, the Russian iconoclast remains indefinable – a stylistic chameleon who continues to confound his audiences. By Kate Molleson Igor Stravinsky was a chronic self-reinventor.
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...
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 ...