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May 15, 2024 · Spano’s relationship with the piece began in childhood, with the influence of his clarinetist father, Tony Spano. “My father is a wonderful musician, and he was also an audiophile,” Spano recalls. “He had a particular love for early 20th century music. I had a compilation set of LPs, and The Rite of Spring was on it. It was a childhood ...
3 days ago · The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
20 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
May 14, 2024 · Igor Stravinsky (born June 5 [June 17, New Style], 1882, Oranienbaum [now Lomonosov], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 6, 1971, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life.
May 10, 2024 · Przemysł II ( Polish: [ˈpʂɛmɨsw] ⓘ also given in English and Latin as Premyslas or Premislaus or in Polish as Przemysław; 14 October 1257 – 8 February 1296) was the Duke of Poznań from 1257 [1] –1279, of Greater Poland from 1279 to 1296, of Kraków from 1290 to 1291, [2] and Gdańsk Pomerania (Pomerelia) from 1294 to 1296, and then ...
May 14, 2024 · Basel III Endgame is the final round of capital adequacy proposals from the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, which is owned by member central banks and acts as their banker. The ...
May 26, 2024 · Ferdinand III (born 1201?—died May 30, 1252, Sevilla; canonized February 4, 1671; feast day May 30) was the king of Castile from 1217 to 1252 and of Leon from 1230 to 1252 and conqueror of the Muslim cities of Córdoba (1236), Jaén (1246), and Sevilla (1248).
