
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
The Mystic Circles of the Young Girls by Stravinsky
The opening section is the hardest for modern day orchestras and conductors to pull off. It has to walk the line between intentionally static interest and sleep-inducing boredom. Stravinsky continues with the same eerie theme from the introduction, but now it is more harmonized by a group of six violas marked to play in a very singing way. And beneath that is the first sign of consistent rhythm. The audience knows that something unsettling is about to happen. A second signal sounds and in one of the more exciting crescendos and a cellarando's ever written,. Stravinsky sends us flying into the glorification of the chosen one.
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