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To: Reverend Saltine

Link to the Original score ?


2 posted on 02/07/2015 12:35:06 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Zeneta

I’m listening to Rite right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWotpIy0uTg
I guess you had to be there.


3 posted on 02/07/2015 12:41:21 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: Zeneta
I think the closest you can get to the 1913 Diagalev/Nijinsky/Stravinsky production is the Mariinski Ballet version which tries to be as close as possible to the original. I saw it last week at the Kennedy Center and there was no riot. Although, the cost of the tickets would have justified one. IMHO, it was not so much the music that provoked the audience in 1913, but Nijinsky's choreography. The opening movement, which Stravinsky claimed he based on a Lithuanian folk melody, sounds a bit too much like Debussy's Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun from 1893, which the Parisians would certainly have been used to.. At least I think so.

BTW, the powerful scene near the end of Clint Eastwood's "The Unforgiven" where Money is leaving the town, is more threatening from the use of opening of Stravinsky's The Firebird" from 1910.

17 posted on 02/07/2015 4:14:48 PM PST by PUGACHEV
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