SAN FRANCISCO — Thursday was the last day of the spring of “The Rite of Spring.” By now everyone and his or her brother has seemingly found a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the riotous ...
Our friends at Deceptive Cadence, NPR Music's classical blog, are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring all this week. You'd be well-advised to wander on over there and check it out.
A 100-year-old ballet, composed by a Russian for a French audience, has become something of a jazz standard. The Rite and jazz music at large can be seen as cousins. Roughly contemporaneous, both ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On May 29, 1913 a riot-inducing work of art, Rite of Spring, was performed at a Paris theater. One ...
To mark the birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky (b. June 17, 1882) classical host Cale Wiggins sets the record straight about riots and The Rite. Stravinsky's monumental work will be ...
Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” is now 101 years old. Last year, good old-fashioned orchestras and ballet companies celebrated the century milestone. So did electronic DJs in New York and ...