The music of Igor Stravinsky continues to influence composers around the world today.
Throughout his life, Stravinsky wrote music that pushed the boundaries of traditional composition. His innovative approach included unusual harmonic combinations and orchestration, which opened up new possibilities in composition. From the premiere of his iconic ballet The Rite of Spring to his later works, Stravinsky challenged audiences and changed the course of modern music.
In this article, we will take a deep dive into the influential music of Igor Stravinsky. We will explore how he transformed classical music, examine some of his most famous works, and look at ways that other composers have been inspired by his work. By the end, you will have a comprehensive understanding of one of the most important figures in classical music history.
Background and Education of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer born in 1882 and is considered one of...
Throughout his life, Stravinsky wrote music that pushed the boundaries of traditional composition. His innovative approach included unusual harmonic combinations and orchestration, which opened up new possibilities in composition. From the premiere of his iconic ballet The Rite of Spring to his later works, Stravinsky challenged audiences and changed the course of modern music.
In this article, we will take a deep dive into the influential music of Igor Stravinsky. We will explore how he transformed classical music, examine some of his most famous works, and look at ways that other composers have been inspired by his work. By the end, you will have a comprehensive understanding of one of the most important figures in classical music history.
Background and Education of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer born in 1882 and is considered one of...
- 3/8/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
A dancer, choreographer and director who made her stage debut aged three, Toye was a creative powerhouse who left an estimable legacy as a film director. Now two of her films are being released for a new audience
There are few figures in British film history as fascinating as Wendy Toye. Born in east London in 1917, she was a showbiz prodigy who first appeared on stage aged three at the Royal Albert Hall. Later, she was a dancer, choreographer and director working across stage and film, and responsible for some of British cinema’s most beguiling and chilling flights of fantasy – as well as some beloved comedies. All that a time when women were rarely entrusted with the director’s chair. “Then, I liked it to be forgotten that my films were made by a woman,” she said in 1990. “I think nowadays I’d feel quite differently.”
For a remarkably long stretch,...
There are few figures in British film history as fascinating as Wendy Toye. Born in east London in 1917, she was a showbiz prodigy who first appeared on stage aged three at the Royal Albert Hall. Later, she was a dancer, choreographer and director working across stage and film, and responsible for some of British cinema’s most beguiling and chilling flights of fantasy – as well as some beloved comedies. All that a time when women were rarely entrusted with the director’s chair. “Then, I liked it to be forgotten that my films were made by a woman,” she said in 1990. “I think nowadays I’d feel quite differently.”
For a remarkably long stretch,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Tony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.
His death was confirmed on his official website. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Tanner, born in Middlesex, England, trained at the Webber-Douglas School in London and soon went on to establish an acting career in UK repertory companies and small London revues. The latter included an early sketch by a young playwright named Harold Pinter, a collaboration that would continue with Pinter’s celebrated The Birthday Party.
In the early 1960s, Tanner was cast in the West End production of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, later appearing as Littlechap in the 1966 film version.
Tanner moved to the U.S. to appear in the 1965 Broadway musical Half a Sixpence, and would later perform...
His death was confirmed on his official website. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Tanner, born in Middlesex, England, trained at the Webber-Douglas School in London and soon went on to establish an acting career in UK repertory companies and small London revues. The latter included an early sketch by a young playwright named Harold Pinter, a collaboration that would continue with Pinter’s celebrated The Birthday Party.
In the early 1960s, Tanner was cast in the West End production of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, later appearing as Littlechap in the 1966 film version.
Tanner moved to the U.S. to appear in the 1965 Broadway musical Half a Sixpence, and would later perform...
- 9/17/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
At his very best, Terrance McNally is able to express on stage the wonderfully uplifting, transportational power of the theater and how it affects the artist (Maria Calas in “Master Class”), as well as the audience (an opera queen in “The Lisbon Traviata”). In McNally’s new play, “Fire and Air,” which opened Thursday at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Company, Sergei Diaghilev is often both the artist and the audience. At the 1912 world premiere of dancer-choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky’s ballet, “Afternoon of a Faun,” Diaghilev is a spectator but his artistic contributions to the work make him as much a co-artist as...
- 2/2/2018
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Festival favorite Paul Cox, whose stirring "Innocence" is in theaters, turns his highly artistic attention to the unrivaled "God of the Dance" with "The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky".
Taking the words of the legendary dancer-choreographer (given an appropriately dramatic voice by Derek Jacobi), Cox works the material much in the same way he did Van Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo, for his 1987 film "Vincent", incorporating archival visuals and bits of staged re-creation with samplings of the artist's work.
The big problem is that those diaries, penned by Nijinsky in 1919 during an increasingly traumatic period of his life, are clearly the delusional rantings of a lunatic.
On more than one occasion stating "My madness is my love for mankind," when not discussing his plans to invent a fountain pen he'll call "God" and sell for $5 million, Nijinsky the nut case grates heavily on the nerves, as evidenced by the scores of festivalgoers making giant leaps for the exits during one of the movie's Toronto screenings.
Needless to say, the Australian film will be a tough sell for distributor Winstar Cinema.
To be fair, amid the prattle there are occasional lapses of lucidity, including Nijinsky's thoughts about his relationship with his oppressive mentor, Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and the complicated one with his wife of five years, for whom he declares passionate but not sensuous love.
Combining images from the Ballet Russe with poetic imagery, intensively researched documents and re-creations of Nijinsky's still-startling work, including the erotically charged "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Cox has his heart in the right place, but his subject lets him down.
While he might be one of the greatest performers of all time, Nijinsky's demented diaries remain, in a word, maddening.
THE DIARIES OF VASLAV NIJINSKY
Winstar Cinema
Illumination Films
and Music Arts Dance Films
A Paul Cox film
in association with Winstar
Director-screenwriter: Paul Cox
Based on the diaries of: Vaslav Nijinsky
Producers: Paul Cox, Aanya Whitehead
Executive producers: Kevin Lucas, William T. Marshall
Director of photography: Paul Cox
Production designer: Tony Cronin
Editor: Paul Cox
Costume designer: Jilly Hickey
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Color/stereo
Cast:
Voice of Nijinsky: Derek Jacobi
Oscar: Chris Haywood
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Taking the words of the legendary dancer-choreographer (given an appropriately dramatic voice by Derek Jacobi), Cox works the material much in the same way he did Van Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo, for his 1987 film "Vincent", incorporating archival visuals and bits of staged re-creation with samplings of the artist's work.
The big problem is that those diaries, penned by Nijinsky in 1919 during an increasingly traumatic period of his life, are clearly the delusional rantings of a lunatic.
On more than one occasion stating "My madness is my love for mankind," when not discussing his plans to invent a fountain pen he'll call "God" and sell for $5 million, Nijinsky the nut case grates heavily on the nerves, as evidenced by the scores of festivalgoers making giant leaps for the exits during one of the movie's Toronto screenings.
Needless to say, the Australian film will be a tough sell for distributor Winstar Cinema.
To be fair, amid the prattle there are occasional lapses of lucidity, including Nijinsky's thoughts about his relationship with his oppressive mentor, Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and the complicated one with his wife of five years, for whom he declares passionate but not sensuous love.
Combining images from the Ballet Russe with poetic imagery, intensively researched documents and re-creations of Nijinsky's still-startling work, including the erotically charged "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Cox has his heart in the right place, but his subject lets him down.
While he might be one of the greatest performers of all time, Nijinsky's demented diaries remain, in a word, maddening.
THE DIARIES OF VASLAV NIJINSKY
Winstar Cinema
Illumination Films
and Music Arts Dance Films
A Paul Cox film
in association with Winstar
Director-screenwriter: Paul Cox
Based on the diaries of: Vaslav Nijinsky
Producers: Paul Cox, Aanya Whitehead
Executive producers: Kevin Lucas, William T. Marshall
Director of photography: Paul Cox
Production designer: Tony Cronin
Editor: Paul Cox
Costume designer: Jilly Hickey
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Color/stereo
Cast:
Voice of Nijinsky: Derek Jacobi
Oscar: Chris Haywood
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Festival favorite Paul Cox, whose stirring "Innocence" is in theaters, turns his highly artistic attention to the unrivaled "God of the Dance" with "The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky".
Taking the words of the legendary dancer-choreographer (given an appropriately dramatic voice by Derek Jacobi), Cox works the material much in the same way he did Van Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo, for his 1987 film "Vincent", incorporating archival visuals and bits of staged re-creation with samplings of the artist's work.
The big problem is that those diaries, penned by Nijinsky in 1919 during an increasingly traumatic period of his life, are clearly the delusional rantings of a lunatic.
On more than one occasion stating "My madness is my love for mankind," when not discussing his plans to invent a fountain pen he'll call "God" and sell for $5 million, Nijinsky the nut case grates heavily on the nerves, as evidenced by the scores of festivalgoers making giant leaps for the exits during one of the movie's Toronto screenings.
Needless to say, the Australian film will be a tough sell for distributor Winstar Cinema.
To be fair, amid the prattle there are occasional lapses of lucidity, including Nijinsky's thoughts about his relationship with his oppressive mentor, Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and the complicated one with his wife of five years, for whom he declares passionate but not sensuous love.
Combining images from the Ballet Russe with poetic imagery, intensively researched documents and re-creations of Nijinsky's still-startling work, including the erotically charged "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Cox has his heart in the right place, but his subject lets him down.
While he might be one of the greatest performers of all time, Nijinsky's demented diaries remain, in a word, maddening.
THE DIARIES OF VASLAV NIJINSKY
Winstar Cinema
Illumination Films
and Music Arts Dance Films
A Paul Cox film
in association with Winstar
Director-screenwriter: Paul Cox
Based on the diaries of: Vaslav Nijinsky
Producers: Paul Cox, Aanya Whitehead
Executive producers: Kevin Lucas, William T. Marshall
Director of photography: Paul Cox
Production designer: Tony Cronin
Editor: Paul Cox
Costume designer: Jilly Hickey
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Color/stereo
Cast:
Voice of Nijinsky: Derek Jacobi
Oscar: Chris Haywood
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Taking the words of the legendary dancer-choreographer (given an appropriately dramatic voice by Derek Jacobi), Cox works the material much in the same way he did Van Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo, for his 1987 film "Vincent", incorporating archival visuals and bits of staged re-creation with samplings of the artist's work.
The big problem is that those diaries, penned by Nijinsky in 1919 during an increasingly traumatic period of his life, are clearly the delusional rantings of a lunatic.
On more than one occasion stating "My madness is my love for mankind," when not discussing his plans to invent a fountain pen he'll call "God" and sell for $5 million, Nijinsky the nut case grates heavily on the nerves, as evidenced by the scores of festivalgoers making giant leaps for the exits during one of the movie's Toronto screenings.
Needless to say, the Australian film will be a tough sell for distributor Winstar Cinema.
To be fair, amid the prattle there are occasional lapses of lucidity, including Nijinsky's thoughts about his relationship with his oppressive mentor, Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and the complicated one with his wife of five years, for whom he declares passionate but not sensuous love.
Combining images from the Ballet Russe with poetic imagery, intensively researched documents and re-creations of Nijinsky's still-startling work, including the erotically charged "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Cox has his heart in the right place, but his subject lets him down.
While he might be one of the greatest performers of all time, Nijinsky's demented diaries remain, in a word, maddening.
THE DIARIES OF VASLAV NIJINSKY
Winstar Cinema
Illumination Films
and Music Arts Dance Films
A Paul Cox film
in association with Winstar
Director-screenwriter: Paul Cox
Based on the diaries of: Vaslav Nijinsky
Producers: Paul Cox, Aanya Whitehead
Executive producers: Kevin Lucas, William T. Marshall
Director of photography: Paul Cox
Production designer: Tony Cronin
Editor: Paul Cox
Costume designer: Jilly Hickey
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Color/stereo
Cast:
Voice of Nijinsky: Derek Jacobi
Oscar: Chris Haywood
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/13/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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