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).

But it remained for the third number on the program— the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon—to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed ...

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 ...