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The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
Stravinsky's goal in arranging Petrushka for the piano (along with Piano-Rag-Music) was to attempt to influence Arthur Rubinstein into playing his music. (A 1961 live recording featuring Rubinstein at Carnegie Hall was published in 2012.) [ 2 ] In order to gain the latter's attention, Stravinsky ensured that Rubinstein would find the ...
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes company, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich (pictured) .
As one does, looking for something else I found on the internet this pdf, "Rigoroso (♪ = 126)": "The Rite of Spring" and the Forging of a Modernist Performing Style by Robert Fink, in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 299-362.It says the autograph is in the Paul Sacher institute.
The symphony is scored for an orchestra of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets in B ♭ and A (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, piano, harp, violins I & II, violas, cellos, and double basses.
The Rite of Spring: Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic: 1940 Blanton-Webster era recordings Duke Ellington Orchestra 1940–1942 "White Christmas" original 1942 single: Bing Crosby: 1942 "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie: 1944 D-Day radio address to the Allied Nations (June 6, 1944, order of the day and People of Western ...
"A Rite of Spring", a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber La consagración de la primavera ( The Rite of Spring ) (1978), a novel by Alejo Carpentier Rites Of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989), a historical book by Modris Eksteins
Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch.The film documents a project undertaken by conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom to stage a performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) with a cast of 250 children recruited from Berlin's public schools.