As emphasized by Mexican artist Jay de la Cueva’s video “Perdóname,” borrowing the words of Russian composer and conductor, Igor Stravinsky: “It’s not enough to hear music; you also have to see it.” So without further ado, here are 18 of our favorite music videos of 2024. 18...
Published in 1913, the year Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring had its Paris premiere, “Zone” is chronologically the last poem in the collection to have been written. The poet was thirty-three years old, the age of Dante embarking on his tour of the afterlife. The poem doesn’t so much ...
16.The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) 1184Igor StravinskyUnsorted Orchestral1913 17.The Planets, Op. 32 1127Gustav HolstUnsorted Orchestral1916 Top Followed ComposersAll Beethoven Ludwig van 9772 Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 9396 Bach Johann Sebastian ...
Early on, we see young Siegfried (Jack Lowden) attend a 1914 performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and the curtain of the theater rises to reveal a special effect: silent-movie footage of idyllic British scenes that then gives way to newsreel images of young men signing up for...
formation of the Olympic rings was playfully acknowledged in the closing ceremony. The evening culminated with tennis legend Maria Sharapova leading the torch relay, which concluded with the cauldron lighting by Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak, under the stirring sounds of Igor Stravinsky'sFirebird...
Lord of Lords features a take on Stravinsky's "Firebird" featuring chaotic strings and a synth in the lead! Dan Boeckner, Wolf Parade: Photo by Meqo Sam Cecil 1. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles I love this record. It basically hits all my pleasure centers. The first time I dropped ...
The current five-parter on Stravinsky – a What Hi-Fi? favourite for testing hi-fi – is fascinating. Listen to Composer of the Week Sound of Cinema (Image credit: BBC) The last of our BBC trio is Matthew Sweet’s (the journalist, not the musician) weekly exploration of the world of...
Steve Jobs misquoted Picasso, who rephrased Igor Stravinsky, who was probably reiterating on T.S. Eliot’s words, which sounded like this: “The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” In other words, it...
We knew we were in for a unique performance when the soundboards rolled out onto the Meyerhoff stage on March 24. What followed was a groundbreaking, mind-blowing, and exhilarating version of Igor Stravinsky’sThe Soldier’s Tale, with beat wizards the Baltimore Boom Bap Society mixing the sy...
Disney's prehistoric take on Igor Stravinsky's ''Rite of Spring'' that imagines the beginning and evolution of life on earth across hundreds of millions of years, culminating with the extinction of the dinosaurs. That's epic filmmaking by any standard. —Christian Blauvelt 22 of 31 BEST:...