Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring

The Guardian ^ | 5/27/2013 | Kim Willsher

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***”The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”..****

I noticed they were gone before that.

[demshateGod]

Yes.

[demshateGod]

Hopefully I communicated some level of ignorance in my original post.

[ConservativeDude]

Yes, indeed, today is the day!

[ConservativeDude]

which is totally based on Opinion”

Totally?

Well..that is an opinion, I suppose....

[ConservativeDude]

And, there’s been an explosion of EXCELLENT choral writing.”

Morten Lauridsen.....

[left that other site]

Totally.

LOL

But that of course, is just my opinion.

[TexasRepublic]

Anyone that likes “Fantasia” ought to love “Allegro Non Troppo” an Italian parody of Fantasia. It has great animations set to beautiful music. I highly recommend it.

For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_Non_Troppo

My favorite segment is Ravel’s “Bolero”, a visual masterpiece, the film’s counterpart to “The Rite of Spring”. It represents a funny take on the origins of life and evolution.

[TexasRepublic]

The “Bolero” segment from “Allegro Non Troppo”. Be sure to watch it the highest resolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aM7st6Xsw

[dangus]

Interesting; my source was a presentation about how cultures differentiate between basic colors in a certain pattern. (Grey-green splits vs. Blue-green splits). But the online etymology agrees with you.

[mrs. a]

I don’t know if this is a true story, but I recall hearing that there was quite a to-do when Rossini introduced this piece - the musicians thought it was sacrilege to tap with their bows and threatened to walk out on him...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUJvGBtAkM

[Boogieman]

Sounds like a talk an artist might give. Maybe they took some artistic license :)

[SomeCallMeTim]

Morten Lauridsen.....

Yep... he's a great one! Shining Night? Magnum Mysterium?? Great works..

But, also.. Rene Clausen has written and arranged some WONDERFUL pieces... I've had the great pleasure of meeting him 3 times, and singing for him twice.

Have to include Rutter and Britten too..... there's been some very good choral music written in the past 100 years.

[SomeCallMeTim]

If I had a tomato... I would THROW it!

YUK!

[Billthedrill]

I can't see striking another person for it, but I didn't get it first either. Love it now. Shelling the orchestra with fruit, however, that strikes me as a little cold, but I have heard orchestras that deserved it. Shelling conductors with fruit - I wouldn't say that more than 50% of them deserve it, some on general principle.

[Tainan]

"Even at my favorite table...He can beat my best!
His disciples lead him in...he just does the rest!"

[ConservativeDude]

Thank you for the tip. Will put Rene Clausen on spotify now!!!!

[SomeCallMeTim]

Check out his “Allelujah”..... one of my favorite pieces to perform.

[1010RD]

The consumer has spoken with their dollar. They won’t pay for the ballet.

[Borges]

These days there’s much more radical than this ballet. The music is good enough to stand on its own though so people have dispensed with the dance. Ballet doesn’t have the following that music does.