Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
biographical • classical music • art & artists • documentary • music • performance excerpts
- Film
- YouTube
- Davies Symphony Hall
- Free

Almost a hundred years ago, Igor Stravinsky shocked the Western world with his ballet score, The Rite of Spring, a highly charged and confrontational piece. Michael Tilson Thomas goes behind the scenes in St. Petersburg and Paris to discover the spirit in which it was written and the drama of the opening night that shook the music world to its foundations.
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