The Sacred Music of Igor Stravinsky
“Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church in all its decoration; it is the church’s greatest…
“Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church in all its decoration; it is the church’s greatest…
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was certainly the greatest composer of the twentieth century, yet most listeners never go beyond his “Russian” period as represented by the meteoric early…
One of my favorite musical works about spring is by Igor Stravinsky, but it’s not the one you would expect—the wild and primal Rite of Spring. Rather…