Today’s the hundredth anniversary of premier of hometown favorite Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The National Public Radios are all over this. NPR Music and WQXR are collecting a bunch of articles they’ve done in the run-up to the anniversary. My favorites: a visualization of the score and a list of essential recordings. The latter features this amazing image of Stravinsky, which I’ve already posted twice today and will continue posting it until it just doesn’t feel right anymore.
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Indeed, Igor Stravinsky will be on that suit and tie.[/caption]
If you're playing along today, WQXR is streaming twenty-four hours of nothing but the Rite. Highly recommended, if you have the means.
