As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Stéphane Denève, music director of the St. Louis Symphony ...

A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

Mirror’ displays a deliberately restricted vocabulary while his ‘Rite of Spring’ finds real and virtual dancers going through ...

The Utah Symphony is performing “The Rite of Spring” where audiences will feel the contrast between the starkness of the desert and the frenetic intensity of spring's awakening. The Utah Symphony’s ...

What makes work interesting? What it is? How it makes you feel? That's the million dollar question I suppose…and one that ...