Celebrating the Music of Igor Stravinsky

By |2021-06-16T17:42:57-05:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: Audio/Video, Igor Stravinsky, Michael De Sapio, Music, Senior Contributors|

For the explosive energy and power of his music, and its exploring of unheard-of worlds of sound, Igor Stravinsky was the main figure in 20th-century music. Many of us are affected by the ethos of his music whether we are aware of it or not. Its confidence, sharpness, clarity, precision, and lack of sentimentality are [...]

Stravinsky’s Other Rite of Spring: “Perséphone”

By |2021-06-16T18:02:29-05:00May 10th, 2019|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Igor Stravinsky, Michael De Sapio, Music, Senior Contributors|

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 it’s his stage piece Perséphone, set to words by the French poet André Gide and retelling through song, ballet, and spoken narration the Greek myth explaining the origin [...]

The Moral Conservatism of Igor Stravinsky

By |2021-06-16T17:57:45-05:00June 29th, 2018|Categories: Audio/Video, Christianity, Culture, Igor Stravinsky, Music|

Igor Stravinsky is endlessly touted as an arch-modernist, but “The Soldier’s Tale” and “The Rake’s Progress” show him to be something more important: a great twentieth-century moralist. 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 ballets [...]

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