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Is This the Emergence of Modern Music?

It was a complete sea change moment for music and ballet. Compositionally, it's just these great blocks of music. It's almost like film music. To us now, it doesn't sound as radical as it must have been at the time. But you think about any of those great, the Rimsky-Korsakov, all of those composers,. Here comes this great big gesture of violence.

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