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 ...
The facts about the revolutionary character of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are well known. Capitalizing upon the ...