On Aug. 18, conductor Charles Dutoit curates a Tanglewood concert featuring two works of Igor Stravinsky: his 1918 “L'Histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier's Tale”) and his 1923 Octet for wind instruments ...

The blandly functional title of Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments doesn’t fully reveal the distinctiveness of this 1920 score, which forms the centerpiece for the season-opening concert by the ...

Our first selection tonight is one of the earliest works from Stravinsky’s neoclassical period. The octet features a rare example of Stravinsky’s use of sonata form, a parody of a Mozart concerto, and ...

Stravinsky uses wind instruments at higher registers to create shrills and irregular rhythms throughout that added a sense of unpredictability. Diaghilev's raw and suggestive choreography accompanied ...