Stravinsky's score for the ballet "The Firebird" established his career, but he was a last-ditch choice for the assignment after a handful of other composers had failed to come through. For the first ...

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...

Upstairs, at Liberty Station’s Dance Place, all but two San Diego Ballet dancers were rehearsing last month for the company’s signature dance, “Mambomania.” It’s one of the works, along with “The ...

The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Over the last two years, Firebirds fans have grown to love watching Andrew Poturalski come up with clutch goals and game-winning plays. On Thursday night they hated it. Poturalski, now playing for the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado Ballet Friday evening took its audience on a jaunt through moonlight, Russian forests inhabited by a mythic firebird and an exploration of ...