As I was planning the concerts for my first season as Sarasota Orchestra’s music director, I was absolutely certain that our audiences should experience Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. It wasn’t ...

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring has been called “the most important piece of music of the 20th century” by Leonard Bernstein, described as “sounding like a voice from another planet” by Aaron Copland ...