Word: rite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devil." Last year, his frothy, obstetrical opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias -in which one character changes sex on stage and another litters the footboards with a good share of his 40,000 babies-created the noisiest scandal in Paris since the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like the Rite, however, it is still going strong...
From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...doubtful whether Johann Sebastian would recognize, or relish, the result. For Stravinsky does not write antiquarian music : he ruffles the calm of his counterpoint with eruptive rhythm and dissonance. It was not the kind of music to excite the Stravinsky cult that had cheered Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring; and it became fashionable in the '20s to say that the fire in the Stravinsky furnace burned out before World War I. It is not so fashionable to say that now: in recent years even some hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer...
When asked which of his compositions he thinks will probably still be current a hundred years from now, he names Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Soldier's Tale (1918) and Apollo Musagètes (1928). But he believes that his later works will also come into popularity. Early this year, after Manhattan concertgoers heard a kind of spontaneous retrospective show of the great composer's music (16 compositions in eleven concerts), few doubted him. Says Stravinsky: "I am not a kidder. I am not a tricky man. The music is there...
...Disney use his Rite of Spring in Fantasia, but does not approve of the result...