The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. The original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. The score contains many novel features for its time, including experiments in tonality, metre,...