Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Primtemps: Part I – 2. The Harbingers of Spring, Dance of the Adolescents. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan.
This caused riots in Paris? In Paris?? I guess times have changed. This almost sounds like it could be from a Disney movie. It would fit right in with parts of The Lion King. My little nieces would love dancing along to this piece. Seriously, I do know that this was featured in Fantasia. I can’t listen to it without picturing dinosaurs lifting up their heads and looking around. Anyway, I guess this is what Christopher Small meant when he wrote in his book Music, Society, Education about “this ability of our society to absorb into itself and neutralize revolt that has characterized the history of music […] in our centuryâ€.