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2013-04-25 06:06:22
Stravinsky, Nijinsky, and Fantasia...insky
So, first of all, this is NOT Stravinsky. That’s right. I tricked you. THIS is Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky. (I will give you a cookie if you can pronounce it correctly.) I posted this video to make a point. Most of us have, at some point, watched the Disney classic Fantasia. Some lucky ducks (like this girl) grew up on it, watching it over and over again. I have found over the years that this particular piece made quite an impression on many a young child. Some still claim to have nightmares from this sequence. The reason I posted this video on a post about Stravinsky is simple: I am NOT one of those people. Night on Bald Mountain never bothered me one bit. I thought the music was interesting, and the were visuals fun and stimulating. As a young child, I knew this was all fantasy […]
2013-04-12 17:01:01
One hundred years ago the ballet provoked a riot and orchestras dreaded playing it. Now you can even hear it in Pret a Manger. The Rite of Spring is still astounding, despite its familiarity, argues Philip HensherAt the first performance of The Rite of Spring in May 1913, even well-informed members of the audience had no idea what they were experiencing. Afterwards, the critic of the French periodical Gil Blas recorded a conversation about the beginning of Stravinsky's prelude to the ballet: "'What instrument produces these sounds?' I say, 'It's an oboe.' My right-hand neighbour, who is a great composer, insists that it is a muted trumpet. My left-hand neighbour, who is no less of a musical scholar, declares, 'I should have thought it was a clarinet.' In the interval we ask the conductor himself, and we are told that it was a bassoon that gave us such heart-searchings."We have […]
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