Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring" -- Documentary Excerpt

[ABookwormAndProud]

The film of the sacrificial maiden in the forest is SO creepy, you have no idea...is there a film like this of the whole ballet in the documentary?

[jintys]

This music is so raw,earthly,strange dissonances,ever changing rythms,and exceedingly difficult to play,and he wanted people to dance to it?...Stravinsky really did shake the ballet world with this.I was first introduced to it as a child in Disneys Fantasia,those images and the music went so well together, but I was always intrigued by what all the fuss was about, and after the BBCs documentary "Riot at the Rite",it all came together.I saw the BRB re-create the original,it was just amazing.

[manytounges]

i hope to make somthing at least near to 'The Rite os Springs' Greatness. the music makes me angry, it makes me wanna yell, it makes my head hurt, it makes me exited SO MANY EMOTIONS IN ONE COMPOSITION simply amazing

[SeikilosLyre]

I remember in third or fourth semester music theory, the class huddled around the full score and followed along a recording of the piece-- absolutely thrilling! By the time it ended, we we're physically and emotionally exhausted.

[dalecampbl6]

just between Bartok and Stravinsky, who do you guys think have more crowd appeal, and off course by crowd appeal, I mean to the audience who appreciates modern classical music from 1910 and onward...

[meowkie]

I am phobic of the rite of this spring, to this day. I have been on anxiety medication, which is making me feel bolder than usual, hence why I am actually able to listen at all. But I'm saying this to say that the narrator of this piece knows what he is talking about. Asymmetric music has new, unusual, passionate and in some cases (my case) adverse effects on our musical souls as we knew it! Stravinsky was indeed a genius.

[whoamicrap]

This is one of the few pieces that make your heart jump as it goes, and the tension is the greatest at the very end when every BANG drum beat feels like an explosion in the girl's heart. It literally feels like a heart attack without even trying too hard to listen to the music.

[nalunoteri]

I love this work of a genius...and everytime I listen to it I discover something new, so much subtleties interwoven...so powerful and passionate,it trapped me forever!

[lucianodomenico]

totally agree. Stravinskydi took the last chance for mankind to make a real revolution in music in 20th century. All other "revolutions" that took place after that was literally crappy when compared to it.

[sonicjihad7]

very little music rocks this hard and still contains the sublime elements of spirit and beauty. Rhythmic and harmonic complexity that rivals any composer before or since. The essential message being the supreme mystery and power of life itself is never clouded by the academic ability but rather utilized as a tool for the divine to easily flow through.

...and it rocks.

[imaracist]

still scares the crap out of me. i've prolly heard this 10 times already and i cant seem to calm down when i listen to it.

[KingdomOriginators]

Thank you for posting this. I can better understand the dance movements that I've seen applied to this music.

[shreivox]

best music of 20th century

[floridadude47]

you must hear it multiple times before you really can get a true understanding of the sheer genieous put into it.

[atomicmrpelly]

How ironic that as I listen to this I also hear one of the loudest thunder claps I've ever heard!

[xoio]

KABOOM!

[phoenixshade3]

This is perhaps my favorite piece of music of all time. Incredible. I would have loved to have been at the premiere. Crush the existing paradigm!!

[seabiscuit53]

what a wonderful and entertaining piece, for a change!

Hurrah to the Artist!

[qanetah]

enlightening and enthralling.

[seabiscuit53]

What a wonderful and entertaing piece for a change. Hurrah to the Artist!