The facts about the revolutionary character of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are well known. Capitalizing upon the ...
Something happened May 29, 1913, when composer Igor Stravinsky debuted “The Rite of Spring” as music for a ballet in Paris.
The narrative of the Rite is based on a vision that came to Stravinsky of a pagan Russian society where, to ensure the arrival of Spring, a young maiden is selected to dance herself to death as a ...