Stravinsky's score for the ballet "The Firebird" established his career, but he was a last-ditch choice for the assignment after a handful of other composers had failed to come through. For the first ...

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...

Orchestra Wellington opens its concert season with two works that welcome the arrival of young genius upon the world stage. Stravinsky had barely finished his studies when the great impresario of the ...

The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Reporting from New York — — “Imagine a fish out of water,” instructs choreographer Alexei Ratmansky to the American Ballet Theatre dancers portraying the 13 captive maidens in his new production ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado Ballet Friday evening took its audience on a jaunt through moonlight, Russian forests inhabited by a mythic firebird and an exploration of ...

One-time Queensland Oaks prospect Firebird Flyer has made it back-to-back wins in Sydney. While the filly didn't develop in time to travel north for the Oaks, the Chris Waller-trained Firebird Flyer ...