Friday, November 5, 2010

Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring will be a hundred years old in 2013.  It’s hard to believe.   We will be making a big deal about it.   I remember back to the opening concerts of Disney Hall after a performance of the Rite, a women was complaining to me about Salonen playing those crazy new pieces.  I responded that the Rite is not all that new.  The only person in the hall that night that was alive when it was written was Richard Colburn, maybe not even.

Here is another youthful conductor – Larry age 5 conducting the Rite.  He knows the piece.  He nails the 11/4 bar.  The women in the household are not that impressed.  He makes a dramatic and dangerous cutoff at the end.  Sorry, I couldn’t resist.  Please enjoy.


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