One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...
BERLIN — The conductor Simon Rattle stepped onto his podium here last month and gave the downbeat. But the orchestra in front of him was not his mighty Berlin Philharmonic — not exactly. One of the ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It is not easy to create a sensation with the Brahms symphonies. These ...