Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (V)

[SmokeROS]

5:36 Amazing! It's like watching Finding Nemo again...

[Doum92]

I remember the first time I heard this as a kid. The 11 percussions beats section was scaring me but I could not understand why. I still have chills every time I hear this part.

[classiccandle27]

Stravinsky rules ^ seconded

[TheJoshuaCarter]

The piccolo player always looks pissed off.

[LordN3mrod]

Is it Walter White from Breaking Bad at 2:40? xD

[musoderelict]

Known this piece for years but didn't understand it anywhere near as I do now. Thank you MTT, SFS, Droidean.

[wasdesign37]

Long as I have been out of the music work this piece has always and will inspire me to finally get back into what I have truly missed and loved. Thank you Stravinsky absolute amazing!

[schnozz87]

Keep clicking 1:38 it's weirdly funny.

[PrettyLittlePinup]

"DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH!"

[meowkie]

I would not label the Evocation of the Ancestors very joyous, personally. I find it extraordinarily haunting. Then again, I am still in the process of overcoming a great fear of this piece. :) This is helping sooooo so much!

[FerreTrip]

@meowkie A fear instilled because of the character of the piece, or because Disney scares the pants off of every kid in the audience during this part in Fantasia? ;)

[meowkie]

@FerreTrip Hahaha, excellent point. I must have been crazy or something, though -- it was the music, not the nature of the animation coupled with the music, that terrified me most. I'm practically over it though. :D YouTube and research was a great help, and this series just gave me such amazing understanding of the piece that I *embraced* the fact that it's kind of supposed to make you feel scared. :)

[LazyBastard69]

The bassdrum guy doesn't seem to hit the drum as hard as he can.

[S4sando]

Its because he is playing the drum as though it is an instrument... not as though its something you 'just hit as hard as you can.'

[LazyBastard69]

1:19 you motherfucking piece of shit. i'm a percussionist and i know what i'm talking about. did you even watch the fucking thing?

[tommyk77]

Yeah, the LA Phil do this a little better

[SuperBrenden]

my director's wife was in the audience during a preformance of this and she screamed during the 11 precussion beats

[onagoodday1]

@SuperBrenden hi brenden. remember me? Jared :)

[JorPove]

Stravinsky logra superar los rechazos iniciales gracias a la ayuda del coreografo Diaghilev interesado en la creacion balletistica de figuras geogmetricas sacadas del movimiento pictorico llamado "geometrismo y mas particularmente del "cubismo" ,lo que le da a las danzas rituales que se bailan al son de la musica ancestral rusa relatada por la "coleccion de ruidos de Stravinsky" un nuevo paradigma expresivo.Asi junto a la revolucion musical asistimos a la revolucion del ballet.

[saytra123]

sugesting: dead dead dead dead....f...savage, you can't never forget it!! I. Stravisnky rules!