Ethan Iverson and his band The Bad Plus re-interpreted Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring nearly 100 years after its premiere.  We talked to Iverson about the piece for our special program "Culture Shock 1913," and our conversation turned into its own podcast!

This week’s program’s title, Mozart and Stravinsky, sets up a scenario that at first glance might seem to be a contentious one, however, the music of Stravinsky and Mozart share many similarities. Both composers were supreme craftsmen, employing only the essentials to achieve their musical goals. Both had keen senses of humor and like to provoke listeners with surprises.

The program features Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet with the Orion String Quartet and Stravinsky’s Divertimento for Violin and Piano with violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott.

On Wednesday, WQXR brought you a live broadcast of the opening night from the Philharmonic. Listen to the first half of the program, featuring Kurtag and Beethoven.

We needed you to help choose which one of Stravinsky's major ballet suite we heard at noon: L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) or Petrushka.

It's an hour of cover songs, New Sounds-style, with many familiar tunes in unexpected arrangements. We'll hear Pink Floyd, Stravinsky, Black Sabbath and Satie for this program. Listen as Marco Benevento and Julio Resende rework Pink Floyd songs and the new music ensemble Fireworks presents a version of the Rite of Spring. Plus, the Bad Plus hits it with "Ironman" and Marc Sloan reworks Erik Satie's Gnossienes. And much more.

On this program, subtitled "Old Wine in New Bottles," we hear new versions of some of the classics including Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," excerpts from Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," and some music by German composer and conductor Thomas Wilbrandt.