When news circulates of a previously unknown work by a canonical composer, the best response is often to pay no heed. The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of ...

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 ...

The rumored affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky remains one of the most debated stories in 20th-century culture, ...

The second movie released in a year’s time to involve fashion designer maven Coco Chanel, the brooding drama “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” delivers its goods on constant repeat. A fictionalization ...

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary ...

W.H. Auden’s wit and precision in poetry stood in sharp contrast to his chaotic lifestyle.

The Morgan Library & Museum presents Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling, an exhibition exploring the rich history of storytelling through remarkable objects from the Morgan’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...