Musical Conversation: Adoration and Sacrifice – The Rite of Spring with David Ludwig
No first performance in the history of music caused more scandal and infamy than Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring. Contemporary accounts of its premiere include people loudly expressing their outrage and the composer being escorted out of the concert hall for fear of his own safety! In this Musical Conversation, award-winning composer David Ludwig explains just what was so outrageous and revolutionary about both the two-piano version of The Rite of Spring and the fully-realized final orchestral ballet. Join Ludwig and CMNW Co-Artistic Director Soovin Kim as they examine Stravinsky’s journey from highly abstract ideas that he could barely write down to the piece that ensured the young composer’s place amongst the most notorious composers of the twentieth century.
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