Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Alexandre Desplat plays “Happy Birthday to You” on his keyboard — but with a twist: the final note on “you” is higher ...

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 ...

Among the most durable compositions of Igor Stravinsky will surely be L’Histoire du Soldat, that brilliantly macabre musical setting of the legend of a soldier who trades his soul to the devil in ...

Composer Alexandre Desplat plays “Happy Birthday to You” on his keyboard — but with a twist: the final note on “you” is higher than in the traditional melody. It’s Igor Stravinsky’s “Greeting Prelude, ...