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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.
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The Seokjeon Daeje (Korean: 석전대제), also sometimes called Seokjeonje, is a ceremonial rite performed twice annually to honor Confucius. [1] [2] It is held at Confucian sites across South Korea including hyanggyos [3] and the Confucian temple Munmyo located at Sungkyunkwan, [4] on Confucius' birthday in fall and the anniversary of his death in spring. [5]
In 1977, a recording of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra playing the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, conducted by Stravinsky, was selected by NASA to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, a gold-plated copper record that was sent into space on the Voyager space craft. The record contained sounds and images which had been ...
Although the project was left incomplete, his revisit to this earlier composition appears to have influenced the symphony. The ostinatos and shock tactics of the last movement, for example, recalls the "Glorification of the Chosen One" and "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite, and
Opening measures of the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, showing the odd meters and chords [g] While composing The Firebird, Stravinsky conceived an idea for a work about what he called "a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death". [60]
The scenario is the celebration of spring by various primitive rituals, at the end of which a sacrificial victim dances herself to death. After its explosive premiere the ballet was not performed until the 1920s, when Léonide Massine 's rechoreographed version was the first of many innovative productions directed by the world's leading ballet ...
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre Du Printemps), Part II: The Sacrifice: VI. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) Igor Stravinsky: Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Igor Stravinsky (conductor) Recorded at the Ballroom of Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, New York on January 6, 1960 Modern classical music / Ballet: 4:35 Germany / Canada / United States