Today, The Rite of Spring remains a classic, but it also still packs a punch.
The Rite of Spring also opened doors to countless possibilities for future composers.
The beginning of The Rite of Spring was the most foreign, exotic and evocative music I'd ever heard.
As Stravinsky said, "There is no life without pulse, " but there's pulse and then there's The Rite of Spring's pulse!
If you want to download The Rite of Spring concert performance I conducted, visit our Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Web site.
All of that is amazing, but there's something almost intangible about The Rite of Spring that drew me under its spell.
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.
Massive Attack and The Rite of Spring will be in the Mayfield depot, which has been closed to public access for over 50 years.
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.
Seeing the natural world up close opened another doorway into The Rite of Spring for me when I left the big city for the countryside as a young adult.
The Rite of Spring was the first orchestral score that I asked my father to buy for me, and I could spend hours poring over the mixed meters and ingenious bar-line placements.
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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More performances of The Rite of Spring followed close on the heels of that famous first night, and by the 1920s, it was played in the U.S. In the 1940s, the infamous piece gained a permanent place in pop culture when Walt Disney used part of it as the soundtrack to Fantasia.
This is the annual rite of spring that American college basketball fans live for after they've trudged through the cold, dark days of winter.
Making the NCAAs has become an annual rite of spring for the Red Foxes.
One of my favorite Rite of Spring memories is of Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the piece with an orchestra of young musicians at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Germany.
These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.
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