The Rite of Spring is an extraordinarily savage affair....If you like, it's primitive music with every modern convenience. Claude Debussy
The choreography is ridiculous, the music sheer cacophony ... taken together, it might be the work of a madman ... sheer cacophony. The public hissed, laughed - and applauded. Giacomo Puccini
the most important piece of music of the 20th century Leonard Bernstein
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913/05/29 | Frederick Delius | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Igor Stravinsky | Composer | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Maurice Ravel | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Serge Sudeikin | Assistant Set Designer | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Claude Debussy | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Jean Cocteau | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Florent Schmitt | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Harry Graf Kessler | Audience Member | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/05/29 | Olga Khokhlova | Dancer | The Rite of Spring debuts at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, causing an actual riot. The programme also include Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | The Rite of Spring Riot | |
| 1913/06/02 | Giacomo Puccini | Audience Member | "The Rite of Spring" is performed for the second time. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | ||
| 1913/06/02 | Gertrude Stein | Audience Member | "The Rite of Spring" is performed for the second time. | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | ||
| 1913/07/11 | Vaslav Nijinsky's production of "The Rite of Spring" opens a four day run at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Stravinsky is confined to his bed by typhoid fever. | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | London | ||||
| 1914/02/18 | In St Petersburg, Serge Koussevitzky conducts "The Rite" in concert without the ballet. | ||||||
| 1914/04/05 | Igor Stravinsky | Audience member | At the Casino de Paris, Stravinsky experiences for himself the popular success of "The Rite" as a concert work. After the performance, under Pierre Monteux, the composer is carried in triumph from the hall on the shoulders of his admirers. | Casino de Paris | Paris | ||
| 1921/06/07 | Eugene Aynsley Goossens | Conductor | Eugene Goossens conducts "The Rite", its first British concert performance, at the Queen's Hall in London, England. In 1941, during the Second World War, the building was destroyed by incendiary bombs in the London Blitz. | ||||
| 1922/03/03 | Leopold A Stokowski | Conductor | Leopold Stokowski conducts the American premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in a The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music. | Academy of Music | Philadelphia, PA | ||
| 1923/00/00 | Coco Chanel | Benefactor | Due to a lack of funds, Ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev puts a production of "The Rite of Spring" on hold. Gabrielle Chanel provides Diaghilev the money on the condition her help remains a secret. | ||||
| 1923/00/00 | Sergei Diaghilev | Impresario | Due to a lack of funds, Ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev puts a production of "The Rite of Spring" on hold. Gabrielle Chanel provides Diaghilev the money on the condition her help remains a secret. | ||||
| 1926/00/00 | Igor Stravinsky | Conductor | Stravinsk conducts for the first time "The Rite of spring" at a concert given by the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. | ||||
| 1928/00/00 | Igor Stravinsky | Conductor | Stravinsk conducts two performances of The Rite at the Salle Pleyel, Paris. He will later write: thanks to the experience I had gained with all kinds of orchestras .... I had reached a point where I could obtain exactly what I wanted, as I wanted it. | Salle Pleyel | Paris | ||
| 1946/08/23 | Eugene Aynsley Goossens | Conductor | As guest conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossenswas conducts "The Rite" in the Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia. | Sydney | New South Wales |
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