#stravinsky
Auditions for spring semester are tomorrow and my professor added some weird excerpts this time I’d never heard Le Rossignol by Stravinsky before, but it’s growing on me now! Hopefully I can clean it up a bit more before tomorrow
Took a break but I finally got back into it! I’m still rusty but I’m ready to get back into regular practice and prep for grad school. This Stravinsky excerpt is on my ensemble auditions this upcoming semester, I’m so nervous
stravinsky/nijinsky/ballets russe
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
{ Music by Stravinsky, choreography by Nijinsky + costumes by Roerich; first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1913 }
On Sunday afternoon of June 2nd, 1912, the influential French critic Louis Laloy invited Debussy, his wife, and Stravinsky to his home for a private reading of the first part of the not-quite-finished score for Le Sacre du Printemps. Laloy recalled the event in his memoirs:
“Debussy agreed to play the bass. Stravinsky asked if he could take his collar off. His sight was not improved by his glasses, and pointing his nose to the keyboard and sometimes humming a part that had been omitted from the arrangement, he led into a welter of sound the supple, agile hands of his friend. Debussy followed without a hitch and seemed to make light of the difficulty. When they had finished there was no question of embracing, nor even of compliments. We were dumbfounded, overwhelmed by this hurricane which had come from the depths of the ages and which had taken life by the roots.”