Blog: RanchO RelaxO

. Great Guardian article on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring debut in Paris , or the mystery of it... The uproar that greeted the premiere of The Rite of Spring on May 29 1913 was such that "we could hear nothing", according to Gertrude Stein. "One literally could not, throughout the whole performance, hear the sound of music." This is hardly surprising as she wasn't actually there, but her account, as unreliable as many others, only adds to the delicious enigma of this seismic event. 27 years later it would [...]