Stravinsky Rite Of Spring Analysis

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Me, and classical music we don’t get along that much, but until November 15 at the Eismann Center in Richardson everything changed. For my Concert Critique I was supposed to attend to a Classical music concert, so I was why not take my girl friend since I have a paper I need to write, and a Classical concert that I have never been too. So I got these two tickets for the Plano Symphony Orchestra that was conducted by Hector Guzman.
The event was for Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky is a Russian composer, and conductor He was born in Russia 1882. He is known to be one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. “A study of his work automatically touches on almost every important tendency in the century's
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Stravinsky Had lived in Russia, Switzerland, France, and the United States but getting adapted to the USA was not as easy to as living in Europe. “This was Stravinsky's second emigration. But in many respects it was profoundly, even disturbingly, different from the first. Although by now an experienced American traveller and far from unfamiliar with American ways, he had few friends on the West Coast, spoke only primitive English, and was settling in a region with, at that time, little of the sophistication of 1920s Paris or even pre-1920s Switzerland.” After NYC and Cambridge He moved to West Hollywood, he lived most of his time in LA, during that time he started meeting a lot of celebrities, musicians and, composers from all over the world. Where he sustained a really good relationship with …show more content…
The most important thing about his work, beside from his technical innovations, is the style while always arresting a designative, main identity. Stravinsky's use of motivic development included additive motivic development. This is where his notes were added and removed to a motif without concern to the consistent changes in metre. Stravinsky’s creation of different and personal aggregated arising from a certain musical nature of alone works is a essential element of his work.
The Rite of Spring is a dance and orchestral concert peace by the Russian composer Stravinsky. It was made for the 1913 in Paris of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets. The idea behind The Rite of Spring, created by Roerich from Stravinsky's draft concept, is advised by its subtitle. In the performance, after many essential rituals celebrating the appearance of spring, a chosen young girl is sacrificed victim and dances until her death. What makes The Rite of Spring sound so exceptional is that, it is contradistinctive to play, contradistinctive to conduct, contradistinctive to

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