Stravinsky has had his fling with jazz and perhaps he still has a few hoop-a-doops left in his system. Ravel, Honegger, Hindemith, Křenek, and scads of other Europeans have experimented with hot ...

In 1928, Constant Lambert was the first English composer to write a piece for the Ballet Russes, his Romeo and Juliet. In his version, the lovers manage to escape together by airplane. Barry ...