More Spring Rounds
Stravinsky’s famous springtime piece is so famous, powerful, and legendary, that it’s easy to forget that it didn’t just materialize out of nowhere. The Rite of Spring sounds the way it does because music had actually been headed in that direction for a quite while. Don’t believe me? Well, a couple years before The Rite was premiered, Claude Debussy wrote Images for Orchestra, which, though not as primitive and raw, sounds very similar. Coincidentally, both pieces have a section called “Spring Rounds.”
what goes around, comes around?
I don’t remember ever hearing this…..takes a wallop out of Stravinsky’s
“Creative” orchestration!
I think Stravinsky’s Rite is still pretty groundbreaking, but it certainly didn’t come out of nowhere.
I gotta tell ya, sometimes, and this is one of those times, I like the accompanying video better than the music!!