Word: riotous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stravinsky premieres his ballet The Rite of Spring in Paris, setting the audience into a riotous frenzy with his rhythms--violent syncopation, sudden changes of meter, "barbaric" repetitions--subverting everyone's expectations for a predictable and reassuring beat. We are but a moment from Wozzeck (1925) and on the way to banishing tonality itself from opera...
...Whether you find The Princess and the Pea a riotous, refreshing break from tradition or overly spoof-y, remember that Firebird is next. It's worth the wait...
...Gidron says, the play is all about "responsibilit,", and the way that we "often fool ourselves about our role as the Everyman." And despite the play being set in '30s Nazi Germany, the play has "as many implications for today as back then." Look out too for the riotous German tunes, which lend a tone of absurdity to the dream-world of John Halder...
...With a riotous Yale crowd behind them and a 2-0 lead at home, the Bulldogs coasted for the remaining 25 minutes...
...riotous revelry for the Yale victory was indicative of the importance the campus placed on football...