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Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring
The Guardian ^
| 5/27/2013
| Kim Willsher
Posted on 05/29/2013 6:20:53 AM PDT by Borges
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To: demshateGod
By that, you mean John Williams and his imitators.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:39:24 AM PDT
by
dangus
(Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
To: dangus
Sweeping Romantic film scores go back to the 1930s.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:41:15 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
I’ve heard THE RITE OF SPRING. I would rather not hear it again.
I will take Vivaldi’s THE FOUR SEASONS any day.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:43:12 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Borges
Thankfully, Stravinsky was able to escape the theater, and the mob, by climbing out a window (in the bathroom iirc). That’s one account of the evening I’ve read.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:43:22 AM PDT
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: Borges
True. But by the 1960s, movies were certainly moving away from that. Williams certainly revived and then dominated the Romantic scores.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:43:38 AM PDT
by
dangus
(Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:44:57 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
SREECHING vs SMOOTH.
That is why I never listen to modern ROCK music. It has none of the mellow sounds of the 1950s and early 1960s.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:48:29 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:52:15 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I can't prove it, but they're true)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Do you dislike Beethoven? He wrote a lot of stuff that still sounds very discordant.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:52:23 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Publius
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:54:55 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: Borges
Indeed.
I remember being a sixth grader raised on Classical Music, and attempting to play “Moonlight Sonata”. I was appalled by a chord that had a half step played together. I thought it was a misprint in the sheet music, but my teacher assured me that Beethoven wrote it that way!
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:00:04 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: Borges
Walt Disney listened to "The Rite of Spring", and in his mind's eye, saw the creation of the earth, the beginnings of life, and the birth and death of the dinosaurs.
Watch what his incredible imagination put together in "Fantasia".
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:02:14 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: Borges
I have his nine symphonies and can listen to them all day long.
Same for Mozart
Wagner
Vivaldi
Rossini
Verdi
And many, many others.
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:10:10 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: COBOL2Java
***Watch what his incredible imagination put together in “Fantasia”. ***
I saw Fantasia in 1971. I’ll never forget the reaction of a family behind me.
Half way through the movie the woman said...”This is TERRIBLE! I hope they at least show a cartoon!” A little later I noticed they had walked out.
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:13:48 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:15:17 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: dangus
“understand that the English word, green comes from the French word, grey, (gris, which is pronounced, gree)”
I’m pretty sure it comes from the Germanic “grun”/”groen”.
To: COBOL2Java
Fantasia was a great disappointment to the movie goers. There were too many expressions of difficult-to-absorb thinking. Not forewarned, movie goers had expected another Disney “classic.”
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:27:15 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
To: Borges
***Ever hear the Grosse Fugue? Its as discordant as any contemporary music.***
Maybe that is why it is gross.;-)
Years ago, on a Classical music radio station, they played some modern symphony that was so bad it mad Rite of Spring sound good! It was torture to listen to it. Kind of like something by THE BLACK ANGELS would do only worse.
I read several years later that some symphony members were trying to sue the company for disability because the sudden change in musical notes caused them “irreparable harm” and stress.
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:30:45 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Half way through the movie the woman said...This is TERRIBLE! I hope they at least show a cartoon! A little later I noticed they had walked out. LOL! Oh dear. I wonder if she made it through "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"...
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:31:02 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
05/29/2013 8:32:46 AM PDT
by
Borges
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