Stravinsky no longer causes riots in the streets. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Indeed, he thinks the composer, along with Stravinsky, is the biggest enduring influence on 21st-century composers. From Wordnik.com. [Esa-Pekka Salonen: 'Start again. That was disgusting'] Reference
If Pulcinella was the epiphany, then Apollon musagète must surely be the apogee of what became known as Stravinsky's 'neoclassicism'. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
HOFFMAN: Well, I think the Stravinsky is a nice example. From Wordnik.com. [Slimming Down the Classics] Reference
To paraphrase Stravinsky on hearing Bernstein conduct The Rite of SpringI think...wow!. From Wordnik.com. [Do you know this man?] Reference
Meet 'Stravinsky', a rescue mutt my 15 year old daughter named after one of her favorite composers. From Wordnik.com. [Viewfinder BLUES] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Stravinsky of the cow bell. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
Performing works by Glinka, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. From Wordnik.com. [Classical music concerts this fall] Reference
Stravinsky once said that music was powerless to express anything at all. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
DELANEY: Stravinsky, Chagall, Picasso, Gertrude Stein -- he knew them all. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Violinist Roman Totenberg Still Making Music at 90 - February 18, 2001] Reference
Where did she come up with these Stravinsky-like time signatures, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [Arif Mardin: Tales from the Recording Studio] Reference
GROSS: Now, the producer sings: I'll let you know when Stravinsky has a hit. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
Stravinsky, Dietrich, Schönberg — all continued to pine for the motherland. From Wordnik.com. [Dueling Markets: Can Food Fight Oil?] Reference
Castleton Festival closes with Stravinsky/Falla double bill, by Anne Midgette. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend roundup: Castleton, Capitol Chamber Festival] Reference
"Exactly what I wanted," Diaghilev confided to Stravinsky in a restaurant afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance] Reference
And so I thought to myself, look, if Stravinsky could survive, anybody could survive this. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
A consummate collaborator, he worked with Stravinsky, Chanel, Picasso, Matisse and Nijinsky. From Wordnik.com. [Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 to Open at the V&A] Reference
Stravinsky composed this scintillating commedia dell'arte ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From Wordnik.com. [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference
I went because I know I used to like Stravinsky but somehow I no longer have the patience for it. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers for Algernon]
Really, really heavy creatures, and Stravinsky calls for the brass to glissando, which means slide. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
In my iPod, I tell you, it's pretty diverse, everything from Stravinsky to Sly and the Family Stone. From Wordnik.com. [George Duke Puts His Stamp On Funk] Reference
"Sacred Music": Stravinsky mocked Vivaldi's concertos --- the same piece, he said, written 400 times. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: 'Eat Pray Love' Merchandise Gets 72 Hours On Home Shopping Network. Doesn't That Miss The Point?] Reference
An orchestral score of Wagner is relatively simple in comparison with one of Delius or Ravel or Scriabin or Stravinsky or. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Now, Stravinsky mocked him; he said that it was the same concerto 400 times, because Vivaldi was fast and he was confident. From Wordnik.com. [Help with Holiday Shopping] Reference
And Wilson then delved into classical music, absorbing the work of Stravinsky and Ravel, as well as Villa Lobos and Rodrigo. From Wordnik.com. [Jazzman Gerald Wilson, Still Enjoying His 'Time'] Reference
As a young composer in the 1940s, Foss 'work was neo-classical, full of lyricism and his appreciation for Stravinsky and Bach. From Wordnik.com. [Composer, Conductor Lukas Foss Dies At 86] Reference
He was here in the 1950s, studying composition with Nadia Boulanger, tutor to Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. From Wordnik.com. [Quincy Jones: 'I knew how to handle Michael'] Reference
Remember, during my first years here, there was Stravinsky, Thomas Mann — a most extraordinary bunch of refugees from Hitler. From Wordnik.com. [By the 'Blog's Early Light'] Reference
“Artists like Picasso and Stravinsky sharing a table with art appreciators and drinkers alike is an inspiring model for us.”. From Wordnik.com. [The New Village Gate : Lindsey Keenan] Reference
SIMON: Stravinsky apparently wrote, What I was trying to convey was the surge of spring, the magnificent upsurge of nature reborn. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
The composer's 1950 violin concerto sparkles with the influence of Bartók and Stravinsky, while flirting with polystylistic chaos. From Wordnik.com. [A Tortured Artist, Before the Torment] Reference
Stravinsky himself regarded "Pulcinella" as his first neo-classical work, both his discovery of the past, and his transformation of it. From Wordnik.com. [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference
(Soundbite of "Rite of Spring") SIMON: But for Stravinsky, spring isn't a season of joyous rebirth, but one of pulsating, violent energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
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