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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.
The Rite of Spring is a 2014 studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus. It is the group's ninth studio album. It is an interpretation of the Igor Stravinsky orchestral composition. [6] [7] The trio first performed the music live in 2011. [8]
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (Introduction, the Augurs of Spring and Dance of the Adolescents) LSO/Claudio Abbado Label: DG 453 085-2. Stephen Sondheim Send in the Clowns (from A Little Night Music, Act II) Glynis Johns (Desirée), original cast recording, conducted by Harold Hastings Label: COLUMBIA CK32265. Puccini
The piece that premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées that night was Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, an orchestral ballet inspired by the Russian composer’s dream about a young ...
Stravinsky met the impresario Sergei Diaghilev soon after, who commissioned the composer to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913), the last of which caused a near-riot at the premiere due to its avant-garde nature and later changed the way composers ...
Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; André Previn conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
The Muny in 1923. In 1914, Luther Ely Smith began staging pageant-masques on Art Hill in Forest Park. [3] In 1916, a grassy area between two oak trees on the present site of The Muny was chosen for a production of As You Like It produced by Margaret Anglin and starring Sydney Greenstreet with a local cast of "1,000 St. Louis folk dancers and folk singers" [4] in connection with the ...
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