The ballets were created throughout Stravinsky's first, Russian, period and his neoclassical period but were missing from his twelve-note period with the single exception of Agon (1957).

Agon was actually commissioned to be a ballet. Stravinsky sat at a piano in the studio with Balanchine as he was choreographing, and they worked together on it. Not a lot of ballets are like that.

with whom he went on to make the landmark ballets Orpheus and Agon. Settling in the USA after 1939, Stravinsky continued to refine his style, culminating in some beautiful late (and too frequently ...

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Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Schola Cantorum, soloists, the composer conducting. Columbia ML 5383. Krenek's pathos in instantly communicative, the pain is very near the surface. Threni seems more ...

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It was good to see that the Balanchine-Stravinsky “Agon,” which opens the company’s program, held its own with no effects more special than live music and brilliant dancing. Peter Boal, ...

Should you find yourself in the Auteuil district of Paris, it’s likely for the tennis – Roland Garros is there – or football at the Parc des Princes. But in 1910, if you were about town late ...

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A mere 33 years separate Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and Stravinsky’s Petrushka, yet what different worlds they inhabit. Apart from the literally plucky third movement, the symphony takes ...