The Firebird Suite, in addition to being a Stravinsky symphony, is also a band, or at least, is sort of a band. The elaborate story, as near as I can tell, is as follows: the Firebird Band consisted ...

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The libretto of The Firebird derives from two Russian folktales: of Firebird and of Koschei the Deathless. Koschei ...