Stravinsky on The Rite of Spring #1
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- In an interview from the early 60's, I believe by Janos Darvas, Igor Stravinsky humorously recalls playing The Rite of Spring for Sergei Diaghilev whose company, The Ballet Russes, would be dancing to this groundbreaking, albeit bizarre, score. One doesn't imagine Stravinsky to be humorous but this isn't the only light clip I've seen. All these clips from the same interview are thrown all over the internet with no source or sequence. I have no rights to any of it but this is important.
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That smile on his face at the end - the look of a troll who's been well-fed. What a legend.
this is fantastic like he wrote that romp chord decades before this and he still is like excited about it like me and others
Yes, and we are still excited... :)
“To the end my dear” 😂
i love that he's just a normal person, he seems so fun to be around
i think i have about 300 photos here thisisnotswanlake.photo.blog/stealing-igor/
I love seeing the joy on his face as he played his music on the piano, showcasing it, I wonder if I make that face when I play my music for people
He knew he was making Diaghilev nervous and he enjoyed it because (I think) he knew he had just written something that would shift the course of classical music. If you make that face then you are a ballbuster with confidence in your craft and its oddities. Bravo and stuff.
"He didn't want to offend me, so he said only one thing, which was very offending. He said, 'Will it last very long?' I said, 'To the end, my dear!'" HAHAHA
P. S. Fatova Mingus, you are a gem for uploading these videos. I can't tell you how much they have helped me in studying for A Level music. In fact, I've watched your Sacre videos all over the world, even in Prague, where I was afraid people would come knocking on my hotel door!
My ears hear him say the words: “he asked me only one thing, which was very *authentic*.”
That grin Stravinsky did at the end
I find it thrilling the way he says "I remember I slept very well" as if he knew back then inside those walls that he was in the making of something that would change music forever
I know right it's like another interview where he talks about going back to Russia after all these years and he's talking about the cutlets that they served on the plane and the vodka. I have a feeling that he could be a drag at a party
The Rite of Spring is pure genius! Thank you for posting this wonderful interview with one of my favorite composers.
I like very much this chord too:)
Yes I very much like the chord too
Steve Buscemi, please play Stravinsky in some Cohen brothers telling of his life.
See this is why I hate TH-cam so many of my comments over the last 10 years have been varied or simply deleted this is a brilliant observation about Steve Buscemi! Son-of-a-bitch! I like it
This is genial
omg he is so funny
Fantastically upbeat guy.
I love him so much
Www.Thisisnotswanlake.com has one of my enormous collections of photos and documentaries of Stravinsky check it out
Thank you very much. Stravinsky is one of my all time favorite composers. I am a Music Major and Composition student with aspirations of writing film, video game, and other scores. This video is great!
I saw this excerpt on PBS back in the late 1980's. It's incredible that I could find it again! Many thanks fatovamingus for posting it!
I really appreciate all of the videos you post. I refer our Russian cultural history students to The Joffrey Ballet Rite of Spring performance as well as these kinds of Stravinsky interviews. Thank you so much!
Thanks a million for the upload. Stunning footage of the man himself.
"Too many pieces of music end long after they have finished."
It's almost inspiring to see how emotionally sincere he is, especially when he's explaining the incident between him and Diaghilev. I actually got choked up a bit.
this is the funniest shit I've ever seen
famously, stravinsky's piano was completely out of tune. this video shows it. he never tuned it due to the fact that he didnt need to.
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
It's tape flutter.
Out of tune..for any real musician is pretty brain damaging.. So ..It’s hard to believe it
@@Nullllus Yes, that's right, the tape is in tune, but the piano flutters.
A legend in so many ways
:-D :-D thank you for me to find out Igor was such a funny guy ! :-)
TH-cam IS HIDING MY COMMENTS. Sorry I did not reply
I'm not sure if you know, but there's a video where it's 10 minutes of Igor Stravinsky playing this chord in this very clip. It's like he's trying his absolute hardest to be annoying in a musical genius-type way. He was certainly brilliant, and changed music forever. What he wrote in The Rite of Spring was very, very uncommon back when it premiered, and it's no wonder people hated it. But it lived to be one of the most recognizable classical works in history.
10 hours! th-cam.com/video/jtYzR4rClLE/w-d-xo.html
See I love this side if youtubr because everyone here seems to be studying theory and composition to create their own works. Keep it up guys!
When I started this channel in 2007 it was about the ballet for the right of spring the original nazinski over time because I love Stravinsky and grew up listening I got to know a lot of the students the theory students because they were forced to watch the ballet you must go and look at the comments they're hilarious but the interesting thing is this: almost all of them came back and made another comment. I am not a theory student I have no degree however this is where the ballet continues to be danced right here on TH-cam and I work with the Stravinsky foundation and I work with Hudson and Archer and everyone is aware that this is where the ballet is still being danced thank you for visiting! please forgive the lack of punctuation I am talking and not saying the punctuation out loud hahaha
Listening again for the first time in many years. 0:50... an eight-note chord? There's an octave doubling though, so actually it's seven notes? I've got an E major in the left hand with a doubled root, and an E♭7 in the right hand. I'm pretty sure that Stravinsky thought in polychords, but in jazz nomenclature I think this is an E13maj7♯9♯11.
I guess he just considers the octave as another note, it's reasonable, because he is probably thinking of the specific voicing... Nowadays it's probably weird because how some things are taught, but it makes sense, it's not the same note, it's an octave higher, if you get my line of thinking and what I assume is his too
I hardly understand his english.
Notice how he pronounces his own name at 0:39. Usually in Russia it has accent on first syllable, Ígor, but he accented the second syllable, Igór. That accent is like all accents in The Rite of Spring :)
I dont remember where, but I see some people talking about that how we talk sometimes applys to our way of making music
@@brunogonzalez8490 agree :) For example on Bernstein's "Young People's Concerts", in 'What is Folk music' part
Stravinsky was also fluent in french I believe, so it's probably due to years introducing himself in French and French having accents on the last syllables.
"i liek very much dis kord-"
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To the end my dear!
he likes very much this chord
It was a very NEW chord you know?"
The chord is Fbmaj7(#9#11b13) with doubled root.
Or you could think of it as Stravinsky probably thought of it -- Fb Major in the left hand and Eb 7 in the right hand.
Such intelligence . . Amazing . . Maestro!
Genius.
@TranscendingMusic absolutely.
0:42 😂😂😂
@Insomniac571 I have a few others on my channel and inside the videos which are about Le Sacre du Printemps. Most of the Janos Darvas interviews with the maestro are on the internet. Do you have "Once at
a Border"? Great great video. Worth the money.
Love this man
Impossible not to. I have a collection of photos - a huge collection -
thisisnotswanlake.photo.blog/stealing-igor/
@@fatovamingus amazing site. Thanks
Stravinsky is one funny guy,
Bliss!
Osamu Tezuka said that Stravinsky was a big influence to him. After watching this video I can see that he may of had an obsession with Stravinsky...
The Rite and Schoenberg's 5 orchestral pieces changed the whole thing.
Don't forget Webern's Op 6 and Ives' Symphony 4!
Exactly...
0:48 he's the guy from the Russian sleep copypasta!
So eloquently stated.
@TheSoftMachineisaMan I love your comment.
Best part: 0:41
Hey Fatova, could you please upload Once at a Border. Please!! :)
yeah, i can't answer that....maybe look around. every week something is posted, you know what I am saying?
stay tuned
If anyone has a link to a pianousic sheet of the rite of springs i will take it.
If you just Google the Amsterdam piano quartet they have it on their site but I know there's a video here on TH-cam that will run you through the entire score with the sheet music
@@fatovamingus ok thanks
Idk why he reminds of my grandfather the way he speaks even tho my grandfather is Arabic and he is russian
*"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
I just listened to- without watching - the Indy performance. It was embarrassing. I have a high school band on my channel playing the Rite without changing time signatures or adding a "jazz beat" to it and BD couldn't do that? Are they too inept to play it as written or do they assume we can not hear it unless it's in common time:?
am the only one feeling sleepy listening to 'the rite of spring'?
There's so many of these that's why I made the ,"Sixty second Stravinsky" library
th-cam.com/play/PLiLVo7MRLxI5mUvB0ShKtVrsRKs6MM_6d.html
How cool is this?
0:45 was he using an electronic keyboard? it doesn't sound like acoustic piano
I don't think he would have been using anything electric. Had electronics gone further than Luigi Russolo at this point? You might know better than me.
Chad!
Based
Do you know where rights to this interview belong?
Either Janos Darvas or from "Once At Border", Tony Palmer directed. I have both. Once at a Border is worth seeing.
Thank you.
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Great video! I get goose bumps, too, when I listen to The Rite.
You asked “what was Stravinsky like?” Here he is talking about composing The Rite of Spring, about 50 years later.
th-cam.com/video/3vwq1AyYGzo/w-d-xo.html
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@honron21 Thanks
Yeah, I listened/watched to the Blue Devils in some prelim thing and they actually did a rearrangement on Le Sacre. Blasphemy man.
It's a SEVEN note structure, not eight. What's he talking about? The bass note is doubled. Odd that he said that. F flat, A flat, C flat, G, B flat, D flat, E flat. Its not an 8 note chord. Thats crazy.
No, it contains eight notes. Eight separate pitches. In the manuscript, the chord contains eight tones. Fb Ab Cb Fb G Bb Db Eb, in ascending order.
He was talking also about fb’s repetition, that is in the score, not only concerning different notes. You don’t have to teach Stravinsky, dear, do you?
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