1) Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky.

2) The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) used both the old and the new.

3) Igor Stravinsky and Serge Diaghilev fled the riot that greeted The Rite of Spring and Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography. Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith explored bitonality.

4) The only choice, as Igor Stravinsky said of the artist, is to remain in the present, not bound or deluded by the past and not imprisoned in a fixed and defensive idea about the future.

5) Over the last century many world renowned artists have performed there including Peter Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, and Maurice Ravel and George Gershwin.

6) Alexey is the author of the transcriptions of such works as "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra", "Century Rolls" by John Adams and "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky.