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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 2

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Streminski's Inevitability in Music

Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn was model of intentionally written stasis. Chute trumpets play a chromatic line that literally goes nowhere, and they play it three times. This is an unsung revolution in Western classical music. Strominsky was surely influenced by Debussy in this passage of the writer's spring.

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