At 100, Stravinsky's "Rite" has become Mr. Twist's brave new world of unforgettable effects.
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Luke's conducted by Brad Lubman, Stravinsky's "Rite" was given a colorful orchestration by Jonathan McPhee.
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Last fall, the theme was the music of Igor Stravinsky and the dances it inspired.
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Imaginative nonconformity was in the air: Picasso, Joyce, Freud, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and others were breaking conventional bonds.
There was a comment that Stravinsky's language and his structures are so much more sophisticated, interesting and developed.
Into his films, as familiar as friends, walk famous names: Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Andrei Sakharov, Igor Stravinsky.
As he watches the creative process of his friends Stravinsky and Balanchine, he becomes inspired to begin composing again.
The haunting Stravinsky score - for four pianos and four singers - reflects the religious origin of the ceremonies.
But other composers subsequently incorporated Wagner tubas into major works, most notably Anton Bruckner, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.
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Also included are works by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Mahler, Copland and Stravinsky.
Stravinsky came with Picasso, as they were both working with the Russian Ballet.
As Stravinsky said, "There is no life without pulse, " but there's pulse and then there's The Rite of Spring's pulse!
Ms. ALSOP: You hear in this piece the Stravinsky rhythms, and this idea of using two pianos is quite unusual and...
George Balanchine, for example, is best remembered for the many "plotless" ballets that he made to the music of Igor Stravinsky.
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The 33-year-old was due to star in a performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, choreographed by Britain's Wayne McGregor, later this year.
For the "Danse Sacrale, " Stravinsky's climactic dance to the death, Mr. Twist tweaks his creation "without dancers" by capping it with one featured dancer.
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Blair Brown radiates magnetism and warm authority as Stravinsky's wife Vera, a former actress who is also Sudeikin's ex-wife and a leader within the group.
The group is privileged to enjoy a private rehearsal of the Stravinsky-Balanchine's gestating avant-garde ballet "Orpheus, " which would soon premiere and be hailed as a masterpiece.
Igor Stravinsky's introductory music serves more as atmospheric soundtrack than as direct accompaniment when Ivan is bewildered and seemingly distracted by longings that twist and animate his body.
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Provocative Italian director Romeo Castellucci will reinterpret Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with a 100-piece orchestra in the derelict Mayfield railway depot to mark the dance work's centenary.
He created a stage-wide frieze in front of the house curtain for 11 of his puppeteers to animate the program's second work, Stravinsky's 1920 "Pulcinella" (here in its later suite form).
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Mr. Ratmansky, taking a cue from the "General Rejoicing" description that Stravinsky gave to his score's ending, turns the tableau into a vortex, with his firebird held aloft and spun over the scene.
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There, he collapses backward as Stravinsky's final, bleating note cues the escape from within the proscenium space of a silky wisp of pure-white fabric, sending it like a comet into the auditorium ceiling.
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Women, led by a "chosen one" of their number, according to the original scenario accompanying Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring, " also manage to dominate Yuri Possokhov's new ballet of the same name.
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Mr. Twist shows his man and woman to us as a courting couple and as a duo performing a stately gavotte, as indicated in Stravinsky's score, to which the tickled Carolina audience expressed audible delight.
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When he joined with Igor Stravinsky at the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle the pianist, in typical fashion, insisted on carrying the composer's heavy bags to their backstage dressing rooms Cliburn performed Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto to a packed house on the first half of the program.
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