For many years in the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky was the most famous living composer in the United States. His music, however, was not as famous as he was. Beyond “The Firebird,” “Petrouchka,” and “The Rite of Spring” — three of the ballets he wrote for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the century’s second decade — many audiences would be hard-pressed to name another work, beyond, perhaps, his ...
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