Stravinsky Rite Of Spring Essay

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The Rite of Spring is breath taking. Personally, I felt it more of a Rite of Passage. The high energy and erratic combinations made me feel an unusual restlessness in my body. When first listening to the bassoon play I expected the composition to be like Spring itself. Spring is soft, flowing, gently to a smooth performance. I wasn't expecting such raw emotion and aggressive tones. I believe this is hwy the audience of the first performance became so erratic and aggressive themselves. The audience who was used to the theater being upper class, Stravinsky took the upper class in high society and brought them back to a more primitive, a more vulgar, and more open time in life which I believe made them feel vulnerable thus having at lashed out on the performance …show more content…

Stravinsky wanted the audience to feel the their inner self locked away. Stravinsky wanted the audience to feel restless, awaken and even scared. These feelings he himself felt that inspired him to write Rite of Spring while he visited his country home. Diaghilev on the other hand wanted and even knew that this performance was going to create a reaction and even told the conductor to not stop the orchestra no matter what was going on. Stravinsky, I believe realized that the audience wasn't ready for such music and tried to stop the performance only to realize what Diaghilev told the conductor. I see it as Stravinsky wished to share his feelings and his desires with his music, but realized the music was too much for the people of this time. " Stravinsky was too far forward trying to go

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