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a rite of spring: the modern mindset of primitive hysteria

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dave

Pagan rites. It demanded music that would be melodic but simple, spontaneous and immodest. More tribal rite that bourgeois concert. Stravinsky was completing his Firebird ballet in 1910 when he allegedly experienced a vision; a girl chosen to dance herself … Continue reading →