Category: Ballet

• Prehistoric Russia

  October 20, 2014

  Ballet, Ballets Russes, Dance

  Ballets Russes, Paris, Stravinsky, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

  The music of Le Sacre du Printemps baffles verbal description. To say that much of it is hideous as sound is a mild description. There is certainly an impelling rhythm traceable. Practically it has no relation to music at all as most of us understand the word. Musical Times, London, August 1, 1913 1913: Stravinsky’s…