Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird Score Study

The Academy of Scoring Arts is ready to kick off a new long-form study, looking at one of the greatest musical innovators of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky, and the suite from his 1910 ballet, The Firebird. Written for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company, it was the first of several momentous collaborations between the two men, and interestingly, was before Stravinsky rose to fame. Throughout Stravinsky’s life, he revised the score to the suite at least three times. The ASA volunteer team is hard at work on a new, custom engraving of the work, correcting various mistakes from older editions and readying it for detailed study in signature ASA fashion, where we’ll have the ability to zoom into specific instruments and solo or mute at will, enabling us to dissect the orchestration in great detail to understand how Stravinsky’s sound was put together.

All ASA members (including our free tier, Chamber) are welcome to join us for this virtual event for free! This will be the first event in a multi-part study series on the Firebird. Zoom info will be sent the day before the event.