The orchestra's recent Stravinsky festival there drew sold-out houses to six concerts.

Picasso retrospectives routinely catch the popular fancy; it is hard to imagine a Stravinsky festival that could do likewise.

One has only to recall the army of toilers creating ballets on assignment during the company's Stravinsky Festivals in 1972 and 1982.

All the ballets either received their world premieres or were first shown in their present form at the company's legendary Stravinsky Festival that year.

He had the distinction of performing in more works during City Ballet's 1972 Stravinsky Festival than any other dancer.

Balanchine's greatest achievements at the City Ballet included Stravinsky festivals in 1972, a year after the composer's death, and 1982.

The version for the City Ballet's 1972 Stravinsky Festival kept the structural outline of the first ballet.

Planning a Stravinsky festival in St. Petersburg, he needed a program of Stravinsky's piano pieces.

Interestingly, during the orchestra's recent Stravinsky Festival, six Stravinsky programs attracted nearly full houses.

His ballet is in the tradition of the Balanchine and Robbins works with chorus seen at the company's 1972 Stravinsky Festival.