The riot of rite of spring showcases hooligan culture but for the more "cultured"... thank you Stravinsky and Nijinsky for girlbossing too close to the sun 💖💅
Igor: "This is sure some highly expensive and prestigious form of art we have here. Sure would be a shame if someone... I don't know... WIPED HIS ASS WITH THE RULES?"
This video is amazing! I am a European slavic person myself and I still see to this day the view of our cultures as "dirty" or "poor" or "primitive",while the more Western cultures are deemed more luxurious. While today it isn't as bad as it was in the past, and I hold no grudges or hate towards anybody it is still sad to see. Thank you once again for this video and I do not think of you as an "ignorant American" since you just quoted history... Dapper history hahahahdhdh
I can vouch, the bassoon solo is very high up. A lot of audience members (and modern first-time listeners) thought it was an English horn. It's actually more difficult to play that opening solo on bassoon nowadays because it was written for a French style bassoon, which was much better in the high range, but isn't common nowadays. Almost all modern bassoons are German style. I've heard people describe them as two different instruments, but I wouldn't quite go that far. This has been my niche infodump, thanks for tuning in.
American French bassoon player, they aren't two different instruments... Unless you want to win auditions. Then they are two different instruments. I have a totally different setup for reeds, exercises and tone development. They are not really in the same boat once you start playing a lot of French Bassoon.
This was so exciting to hear about from start to finish and its a fucking travesty that regular classes can only hope to be this much fun. When I say I want a teacher who is passionate and loves what they're talking about and loves relaying this information THIS is what I'm talking about!
AHHH THE RITE OF SPRING!!! As someone who plays bassoon I’ve always wanted to play the solo from the beginning! I took a music theory class over the summer and we went over how up until rite of spring music theory was practically the same until he broke all of the rules. Also I’m a Gemini as well didn’t know he was haha.
Hello 👋 Almost graduated music major here! If anyone here wants to learn more about this topic, as well as the sources in the description, you should look up the documentary “Rite of Spring; Joffrey Ballet. Documentary and Performance”. Some historians and musicians had to do some INTENSIVE digging to re-put together this piece so it wouldn’t be lost to time, and it’s super cool to hear about. Also Thomas Forrest has a book called “First Nights” that talks about the premieres of 5 famous pieces, Rite of Spring being one. It puts you right into the screaming audience in such an engaging way. I hugely recommend
The first time I heard Stravinsky was watching the first Fantasia movie as a kid. I used to dance to all those pieces along with the characters. That movie single-handedly convinced me of the power music has to tell a story, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Bless Stravinsky and those freaky Disney dinosaurs eating each other during his Rite of Spring!
You’re genuinely the most underrated TH-camr I know of. Your content has variety and intrigue and quality. Absolutely love every video you release, keep at it!
Awwww yeah! Christmas is early this year! Ok so I commented before I watched the video. If anyone ever has the chance, go see this performed live. It's so intense and gripping. Best night of my life. I got the tickets from a lady in the Target parking lot who was fighting with her husband and she offered me and my bitch sister tickets out the window of her car like she was throwing them in the trash without feeling guilty about littering, but I was so pumped. It was wonderful. Memphis Symphony Orchestra did a fantastic job and it was easily the best concert I've ever been to, besides King Diamond.
RoS is, like, the only ballet I actually actively WANT to watch performed. Like, ballet as an art obviously has so many beautiful works but I'm just so utterly enthralled by this subversive, grotesque, glorious piece,
You absolutely went off with your discussion of “What is Truth” at 17:36. Objective truth can never known because we will only ever have OUR perception of events, and so that means others perceptions of events given the same input are EQUALLY “true”. In the context of researching, it’s up to us to consider reliability, their possible contemporary motivations/kickbacks for publishing an account of events, and their individual differing experiences like you said so beautifully! p.s. I know I’m posting this about a year late, but I found your channel recently through the algorithm suggesting your most recent video on the Glass Delusion and I love love love your history videos! I think you’re a trailblazer when it comes analysis/commentary, and your arguments are always well-supported and interesting! Keep it up :)
I played the Rite of Spring with my music uni's symphony orchestra 2 weeks ago and it was incredible. The music is incredible but playing it really makes you feel alive.
as a classical musician i find it fascinating that most people don’t know about this lol, thank u for elucidating the plebs [E] THANK YOU for mentioning Rimsky-Korsakov, easily my favorite Russian composer, I’ve performed many of his vocal works 💖💖💖💖
I have been into ballet for years already and this piece of unpopular history of ballet in general is what I need. It’s so hilarious throughout just imagining it
I'm a Ukrainian folk dancer so this is all really fascinating! Especially 9:37- that's how I've felt as long as I can remember, since I'm diaspora. Just put in the center of something obviously bigger than my capability to understand with no explanation. Very little of the society that my folk dancing arose from has been explained to me, and I'd guess most of that information has been forgotten or destroyed, so most of what I know is through word of mouth in a continent-spanning century-spanning game of telephone. But folk dance lives on even though it's almost impossible to find out why people would dance that way, and I can only guess about the people who used to do the steps before me. Why they wore the costumes I wear and why they did the steps I do, what that says about their values- I learn by doing it Anyways, thanks for making this video, it was worth my hour long search
45 yrs ago I had to study Rite Of Spring in my final year of High School. I wish you had been around then. I finally understand so much more about it now. Thank you!
I would down to watch a historic drama mini series or something of the sorts. I'm fascinated with what went down, I forget how weird and wonderful history can be at times.
i love ballet so much. i just wish it wasn’t so… gestures vaguely.. y’know. ed-central, racist, etc etc etc etc we all can fill in the blanks. this show sounds AMAZING and u explained it so well and ur entirely correct in ur assessment of european elitism ahdhdhh
I've never seen the ballet. I'm an uncultured swine who first heard the piece as a child in Disney's Fantasia. Still to this day this piece frightens me to my core. The themes and emotions in the composition come through so vividly i find it truly unsettling.
My ideal way of learning new things is by watching unhinged TH-cam videos and your videos are always some of my favorites. Immaculate vibes I am never bored and I learn about stuff that I never would have learned about otherwise
I feel like you have given me something totally new to obsess over that I never knew exsisted, thank you so much! Also I adore your outfit as usual, you are such an inspiration
Sorry for making this comment on a completely unrelated video and many years too late, but I just finished watching Daisy Brown and wanted to say that you are super talented and awesome. So yeah, just keep making whatever videos you want, stay happy, you rock.
I watched the first minute or so of this video and then had to go do something so I closed it. I couldn't find it again so I literally looked for this video for an hour. Finally found it! Liked and subbed!
Loved your interpretation - the timing of the ballet was at the advent of the First World War and the Russian Revolution at the end of the fin-de-Siècle reflecting the anxiety and clash of the philosophy and even high fashion. Coco Chanel had relations with Stravinsky according to her memoirs 'Allure de Chanel' and the designs and modern influences shaped all other fields after that. Thanks for your video.
the rite of spring is one of my biggest interests like, ever, and you did a wonderful job with the research !! this is an amazing video i'm so sad i havent found it any earlier 😭
The Viennese were even more conservative musically than the French. They famously hated Wagner, Liszt, Bruckner, Mahler, all ppl who r a lot more “conservative” compared to Stravinsky. A concert of music by the second viennese school (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg) put together two months prior to the premiere of The Rite also caused a riot and would come to be called the Skandalkonzert, or the scandal concert in English. The premiere went so bad, Schoenberg had to create The Society for Private Musical Performances so he could get his and his friends works performed.
Btw, I don’t use the word “conservative” politically here. Basically I’m using it to describe the attitudes of ppl who believed music should stick to the harmonic principles composers like Bach, Mozart, and Brahms used. Also, the Skandalkonzert concert was before Schoenberg invented the twelve-tone method, he didn’t invent it until 1924. The style of music created by the second Viennese school at the time was called expressionism
We have the Stravinsky fountain in Paris :) it's located on the Place Stravinsky, both named after Igor, and the fountain has mechanical moving sculptures inspired by The Rite of Spring! Take that, snobs!!
The og emotive hardcore band is called Rites of Spring. Emo was pretty hated in its early years in the mid 80s bc hardcore punk was a fucking sausage fest in the 80s and some people couldn't deal with men expressing their feelings. Ian McKaye denounced the term "emo" being applied to hc with emotional lyrics as "fucking stupid". But that's a running theme with musicians anyway, Andrew Eldritch just wanted to be the next motorhead and bands like the cure and Siouxsie and the banshees were just making punk, they really didn't (don't) identify with goth. Ofc the term "emo" was completely bastardized by the 2000s after the rise of Midwest emo and math rock in the 90s.
I personally love the ballet and it is a shame that it took so many years until it could be apperciated for what it was in itself. As to the story, I lean to the story as presented by Robert Greenberg. He talks about the conductor Pierre Monteux who on hearing a piano version of the score, believed Stravinksky mad and that it was going to cause a scandel. During the actual performance as things began to go south, Stravinksky stormed off and spent the rest of the performance holding the coat tails of Nijinsky who was forced to stand on a chair and yell numbers at the dancers to keep them on track. And the man behind it all? Serge Diaghilev (founder of the Ballet Russes) whom engineered the riot or probably more to his view, the assigned role of the audience, by going as far as to give free tickets to the "beret-clad young people" to ensure them spots near the elite. Stravinsky would say that Diaghilev's only comment was that "that' was exactly what I wanted".
As a matter of fact, Igor's father WAS A MUSICIAN, a very respected opera singer.!!! The problem was that, being an admirer of the classics and romantics, he thought that Igor had no talente for music at all!!! The man hated the music of Debussy, for instance!!!
I wish I had seen this earlier and I would have really liked to collaborate a little with you or still may there's a lot left to the story. Though I do like your emphasis on the poor beating up the rich
I feel like you would be interested in the Ancient Egyptian criminal Paneb from Deir el Medina. A very corrupt and comically horrific official from the workers town.
Well done presentation on a masterpiece I grew up with. And I just subscribed to you, simply because you said “Subscribe if you want to. Don’t if you don’t.”. Love you for that. 😊
Okay, I have a different take. The Rite is my favorite piece of classical music. I couldn't care less about the ballet. I don't think the story is particularly profound; I mean, there's a reason that we as a human civilization no longer sacrifice a virgin to propitiate the gods of spring. There's a sort of horror movie appeal to watching the tortured victim dance herself to death, but it's also more than a little sadistic to enjoy that vicariously. As you might surmise, I'm not a fan of horror movies, either. But some people are, so whatever squeaks yer rubber duckie. It's also important to note that Stravinsky himself as conductor never made a satisfactory recording of the piece and it took literally decades before orchestras had enough feel for additive meter to do it justice, especially the metrically amazing Sacrificial Dance. Today, it's standard repertoire and there are many fine recordings of the music, but the clusterfuck of the ballet premiere was doubtless exacerbated by an abysmal, unbalanced musical performance. Stravinsky tinkered with the score for years to iron out some of those systemic problems. The premiere's conductor, Pierre Monteux, was dutiful but loathed the music. Over his career he conducted it over 50 times and never grew to like it any more. At the end of his career, he thought the music hadn't worn well -- a judgment which itself hasn't worn well. There's also a story, which I haven't seen confirmed anywhere so doubtless apocryphal, that he re-barred the entire piece into 4/4 to make it "easier" for the orchestra. Heh.
just finished watching the rite of spring, hopefully i will get a chance to be an insufferable contrarian about it someday! (my cat watched with me all 35 minutes, he usually never watches anything for that long but rite of spring captivated his little brain cell)
Awesome vid Jules, thanks, more people need to know about this. Stravinsky is just fucking wacko in the best musical way. My favorite orchestral version of this is th-cam.com/video/EkwqPJZe8ms/w-d-xo.html One of the great things that happens in this piece is in the second movement where all the basses just chug and crunch on that Eb7/E with random spikes in it - some say it's the first hard rock performance. Edge as fuck. Also the first Fantasia Disney film uses this piece for a bit about the evolution of early lifeforms up to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Soooo basically.... the ballet was a giant middle finger to the elite.... Stravinsky was the first punk rocker
exactly.
I've always been entertained that the last four bass notes of the ballet are D-E-A-D.
The riot of rite of spring showcases hooligan culture but for the more "cultured"... thank you Stravinsky and Nijinsky for girlbossing too close to the sun 💖💅
Igor: "This is sure some highly expensive and prestigious form of art we have here. Sure would be a shame if someone... I don't know... WIPED HIS ASS WITH THE RULES?"
This video is amazing! I am a European slavic person myself and I still see to this day the view of our cultures as "dirty" or "poor" or "primitive",while the more Western cultures are deemed more luxurious. While today it isn't as bad as it was in the past, and I hold no grudges or hate towards anybody it is still sad to see. Thank you once again for this video and I do not think of you as an "ignorant American" since you just quoted history... Dapper history hahahahdhdh
I can vouch, the bassoon solo is very high up. A lot of audience members (and modern first-time listeners) thought it was an English horn.
It's actually more difficult to play that opening solo on bassoon nowadays because it was written for a French style bassoon, which was much better in the high range, but isn't common nowadays. Almost all modern bassoons are German style. I've heard people describe them as two different instruments, but I wouldn't quite go that far.
This has been my niche infodump, thanks for tuning in.
I legit didn't know it was a bassoon until today. Like, what! How??
American French bassoon player, they aren't two different instruments... Unless you want to win auditions. Then they are two different instruments. I have a totally different setup for reeds, exercises and tone development. They are not really in the same boat once you start playing a lot of French Bassoon.
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This was so exciting to hear about from start to finish and its a fucking travesty that regular classes can only hope to be this much fun. When I say I want a teacher who is passionate and loves what they're talking about and loves relaying this information THIS is what I'm talking about!
AHHH THE RITE OF SPRING!!! As someone who plays bassoon I’ve always wanted to play the solo from the beginning! I took a music theory class over the summer and we went over how up until rite of spring music theory was practically the same until he broke all of the rules. Also I’m a Gemini as well didn’t know he was haha.
Instantly obsessed with your faux monocle. Your ... fauxnocle.
Hello 👋 Almost graduated music major here! If anyone here wants to learn more about this topic, as well as the sources in the description, you should look up the documentary “Rite of Spring; Joffrey Ballet. Documentary and Performance”. Some historians and musicians had to do some INTENSIVE digging to re-put together this piece so it wouldn’t be lost to time, and it’s super cool to hear about.
Also Thomas Forrest has a book called “First Nights” that talks about the premieres of 5 famous pieces, Rite of Spring being one. It puts you right into the screaming audience in such an engaging way. I hugely recommend
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They all were so unapologetically russian for this, love it. Amazing video, as always!
As an absolute ballet nerd, seeing Jules talk about THIS ballet!!!!! IM SCREAMING SO HIGH AND SO FANCILY
The painted on monocle is perfect
What an extremely dapper episode of Dapper History with Jules Dapper!
The first time I heard Stravinsky was watching the first Fantasia movie as a kid. I used to dance to all those pieces along with the characters. That movie single-handedly convinced me of the power music has to tell a story, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Bless Stravinsky and those freaky Disney dinosaurs eating each other during his Rite of Spring!
Oh my God, I’m so happy Dapper History is back! 😭🥰
You’re genuinely the most underrated TH-camr I know of. Your content has variety and intrigue and quality. Absolutely love every video you release, keep at it!
Awwww yeah! Christmas is early this year!
Ok so I commented before I watched the video. If anyone ever has the chance, go see this performed live. It's so intense and gripping. Best night of my life. I got the tickets from a lady in the Target parking lot who was fighting with her husband and she offered me and my bitch sister tickets out the window of her car like she was throwing them in the trash without feeling guilty about littering, but I was so pumped. It was wonderful. Memphis Symphony Orchestra did a fantastic job and it was easily the best concert I've ever been to, besides King Diamond.
RoS is, like, the only ballet I actually actively WANT to watch performed. Like, ballet as an art obviously has so many beautiful works but I'm just so utterly enthralled by this subversive, grotesque, glorious piece,
"me and my bitch sister..." so casually dropped in I almost missed that shit.
😂😂😂
10/10
You absolutely went off with your discussion of “What is Truth” at 17:36. Objective truth can never known because we will only ever have OUR perception of events, and so that means others perceptions of events given the same input are EQUALLY “true”. In the context of researching, it’s up to us to consider reliability, their possible contemporary motivations/kickbacks for publishing an account of events, and their individual differing experiences like you said so beautifully!
p.s. I know I’m posting this about a year late, but I found your channel recently through the algorithm suggesting your most recent video on the Glass Delusion and I love love love your history videos! I think you’re a trailblazer when it comes analysis/commentary, and your arguments are always well-supported and interesting! Keep it up :)
I played the Rite of Spring with my music uni's symphony orchestra 2 weeks ago and it was incredible. The music is incredible but playing it really makes you feel alive.
Can't forget, "If that's a bassoon, I'm a baboon!" 😂😂😂
as a classical musician i find it fascinating that most people don’t know about this lol, thank u for elucidating the plebs
[E] THANK YOU for mentioning Rimsky-Korsakov, easily my favorite Russian composer, I’ve performed many of his vocal works 💖💖💖💖
I have been into ballet for years already and this piece of unpopular history of ballet in general is what I need. It’s so hilarious throughout just imagining it
I'm a Ukrainian folk dancer so this is all really fascinating! Especially 9:37- that's how I've felt as long as I can remember, since I'm diaspora. Just put in the center of something obviously bigger than my capability to understand with no explanation. Very little of the society that my folk dancing arose from has been explained to me, and I'd guess most of that information has been forgotten or destroyed, so most of what I know is through word of mouth in a continent-spanning century-spanning game of telephone. But folk dance lives on even though it's almost impossible to find out why people would dance that way, and I can only guess about the people who used to do the steps before me. Why they wore the costumes I wear and why they did the steps I do, what that says about their values- I learn by doing it
Anyways, thanks for making this video, it was worth my hour long search
Leave it to Dapper History to always engage me in a topic I’ve never heard about in my life but am suddenly completely invested in!
The joy I felt seeing a new Dapper History- I can’t even describe it ❤
45 yrs ago I had to study Rite Of Spring in my final year of High School. I wish you had been around then. I finally understand so much more about it now. Thank you!
I about went feral when I saw the title I love this ballet and I love Igor. Thank you for covering it💜
you and my whacky old music history professor Ruthanne would get along,,, vibes off the chart, I love it
The fact that I saw the title and was like "IS THIS ABOUT RITES OF SPRING MY BELOVED???" and it was!!!
I would down to watch a historic drama mini series or something of the sorts. I'm fascinated with what went down, I forget how weird and wonderful history can be at times.
Look up "riot at the rite".
"YOURE JUST LIKE MY DAD!!" PFFT-
It's impressing how you always find new and different topics to entertain us!
I always heard about the riot at the rite of spring premiere. But I never understood why it had that effect. Now I understand, thanks for that!
i love ballet so much. i just wish it wasn’t so… gestures vaguely.. y’know. ed-central, racist, etc etc etc etc we all can fill in the blanks. this show sounds AMAZING and u explained it so well and ur entirely correct in ur assessment of european elitism ahdhdhh
I've never seen the ballet. I'm an uncultured swine who first heard the piece as a child in Disney's Fantasia.
Still to this day this piece frightens me to my core. The themes and emotions in the composition come through so vividly i find it truly unsettling.
My ideal way of learning new things is by watching unhinged TH-cam videos and your videos are always some of my favorites. Immaculate vibes I am never bored and I learn about stuff that I never would have learned about otherwise
truly got goosebumps hearing how the riot started and ended. how ironic the whole thing is!
"You're just like my dad!"
The way I stop EVERYTHING I’M DOING WHEN SHE UPLOADS
U are such a good storyteller I can’t stop binge watching ur channel
Me about to watch The Rite of Spring despite not being a giant fan of ballet because I honestly really liked The Firebird
You should talk more about literally anything that comes up in your mind. I will watch it all.
"World star!" That killed me
I feel like you have given me something totally new to obsess over that I never knew exsisted, thank you so much! Also I adore your outfit as usual, you are such an inspiration
Sorry for making this comment on a completely unrelated video and many years too late, but I just finished watching Daisy Brown and wanted to say that you are super talented and awesome. So yeah, just keep making whatever videos you want, stay happy, you rock.
I watched the first minute or so of this video and then had to go do something so I closed it. I couldn't find it again so I literally looked for this video for an hour. Finally found it! Liked and subbed!
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Loved your interpretation - the timing of the ballet was at the advent of the First World War and the Russian Revolution at the end of the fin-de-Siècle reflecting the anxiety and clash of the philosophy and even high fashion. Coco Chanel had relations with Stravinsky according to her memoirs 'Allure de Chanel' and the designs and modern influences shaped all other fields after that. Thanks for your video.
the rite of spring is one of my biggest interests like, ever, and you did a wonderful job with the research !! this is an amazing video i'm so sad i havent found it any earlier 😭
NOTE: Male ballet dancers are not called BALLERINAS. (Never have been) They are called DANSEURS.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, both these and your series. keep at it
Omg the way I was hyped all week for this
The Viennese were even more conservative musically than the French. They famously hated Wagner, Liszt, Bruckner, Mahler, all ppl who r a lot more “conservative” compared to Stravinsky. A concert of music by the second viennese school (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg) put together two months prior to the premiere of The Rite also caused a riot and would come to be called the Skandalkonzert, or the scandal concert in English. The premiere went so bad, Schoenberg had to create The Society for Private Musical Performances so he could get his and his friends works performed.
Btw, I don’t use the word “conservative” politically here. Basically I’m using it to describe the attitudes of ppl who believed music should stick to the harmonic principles composers like Bach, Mozart, and Brahms used. Also, the Skandalkonzert concert was before Schoenberg invented the twelve-tone method, he didn’t invent it until 1924. The style of music created by the second Viennese school at the time was called expressionism
This is legit one of my favorite moment in musical theater history. XD
We have the Stravinsky fountain in Paris :) it's located on the Place Stravinsky, both named after Igor, and the fountain has mechanical moving sculptures inspired by The Rite of Spring!
Take that, snobs!!
I'm doing an school essay about igor Stravinsky so this is very helpful! Thank you!
I watched a version with Nijinsky's original choreography. Brilliant! So surprising that such a classic was so hated.
upload again soon Jules i love your videos
This is my favorite episode so far ! I love rite of spring and nijinsky. Thank you :-)
Love the monocle.
The og emotive hardcore band is called Rites of Spring. Emo was pretty hated in its early years in the mid 80s bc hardcore punk was a fucking sausage fest in the 80s and some people couldn't deal with men expressing their feelings. Ian McKaye denounced the term "emo" being applied to hc with emotional lyrics as "fucking stupid". But that's a running theme with musicians anyway, Andrew Eldritch just wanted to be the next motorhead and bands like the cure and Siouxsie and the banshees were just making punk, they really didn't (don't) identify with goth. Ofc the term "emo" was completely bastardized by the 2000s after the rise of Midwest emo and math rock in the 90s.
“You’re just like my dad!” 💀😂
The simultaneous birth of post modern orchestral music and modern dance. Look up G.I. Gurdjief and the movements. Excellent video essay.
I personally love the ballet and it is a shame that it took so many years until it could be apperciated for what it was in itself. As to the story, I lean to the story as presented by Robert Greenberg. He talks about the conductor Pierre Monteux who on hearing a piano version of the score, believed Stravinksky mad and that it was going to cause a scandel. During the actual performance as things began to go south, Stravinksky stormed off and spent the rest of the performance holding the coat tails of Nijinsky who was forced to stand on a chair and yell numbers at the dancers to keep them on track. And the man behind it all? Serge Diaghilev (founder of the Ballet Russes) whom engineered the riot or probably more to his view, the assigned role of the audience, by going as far as to give free tickets to the "beret-clad young people" to ensure them spots near the elite. Stravinsky would say that Diaghilev's only comment was that "that' was exactly what I wanted".
One of my favs ballets. Spare some love for Stravinsky's Petrushka. A TV film Riot at the Rite also goes into things.
Brilliant discussion. Delirium was in the air. WW1 was right around the corner. Please let us know when you are coming to Berkeley.
This how video I thought you was wearing a monocle. Till I realized it’s drawn on !!!
as soon as i saw the title I KNEW, im SO excited
As a matter of fact, Igor's father WAS A MUSICIAN, a very respected opera singer.!!! The problem was that, being an admirer of the classics and romantics, he thought that Igor had no talente for music at all!!! The man hated the music of Debussy, for instance!!!
yessss ur back!!! what an AMAZING narrative
Love the monocle
This is a GREAT intro into the ‘riot at the rite’! How do you keep that monocle chain in place?!?🧐
The project for the rite of spring was temporarily put aside for Petrushka.
How do you keep that monocle chain in place?!?🧐
I wish I had seen this earlier and I would have really liked to collaborate a little with you or still may there's a lot left to the story. Though I do like your emphasis on the poor beating up the rich
I tried watching the ballet in the description but it’s private :(
Literally a gift from god when you post
man, the 1910s were wild.
I can confirm, I was getting my ass beat
I feel like you would be interested in the Ancient Egyptian criminal Paneb from Deir el Medina. A very corrupt and comically horrific official from the workers town.
Missed your content! Hope you’re doing well ❤
YIPEE !! Good to see you again!
I saw the name Fyodor and had a visceral reaction.
Bungo Stray Dogs has tainted me.
Well done presentation on a masterpiece I grew up with. And I just subscribed to you, simply because you said “Subscribe if you want to. Don’t if you don’t.”. Love you for that. 😊
I see this channel is going the educational route.
Jules is the new VSauce.
Okay, I have a different take. The Rite is my favorite piece of classical music. I couldn't care less about the ballet. I don't think the story is particularly profound; I mean, there's a reason that we as a human civilization no longer sacrifice a virgin to propitiate the gods of spring. There's a sort of horror movie appeal to watching the tortured victim dance herself to death, but it's also more than a little sadistic to enjoy that vicariously. As you might surmise, I'm not a fan of horror movies, either. But some people are, so whatever squeaks yer rubber duckie.
It's also important to note that Stravinsky himself as conductor never made a satisfactory recording of the piece and it took literally decades before orchestras had enough feel for additive meter to do it justice, especially the metrically amazing Sacrificial Dance. Today, it's standard repertoire and there are many fine recordings of the music, but the clusterfuck of the ballet premiere was doubtless exacerbated by an abysmal, unbalanced musical performance. Stravinsky tinkered with the score for years to iron out some of those systemic problems.
The premiere's conductor, Pierre Monteux, was dutiful but loathed the music. Over his career he conducted it over 50 times and never grew to like it any more. At the end of his career, he thought the music hadn't worn well -- a judgment which itself hasn't worn well. There's also a story, which I haven't seen confirmed anywhere so doubtless apocryphal, that he re-barred the entire piece into 4/4 to make it "easier" for the orchestra. Heh.
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HELL YEAH RITE OF SPRING
In your research did you run across the production were the sacrificial virgin is stripped totally nude, that is to say totally naked?
I memorized the whole damn piece and I can even conduct it! Without looking at the score!
Fantastic! I really want to see it now.
It's A Ballet Brawl, Y'all! 🤜🧐
just finished watching the rite of spring, hopefully i will get a chance to be an insufferable contrarian about it someday! (my cat watched with me all 35 minutes, he usually never watches anything for that long but rite of spring captivated his little brain cell)
Awesome vid Jules, thanks, more people need to know about this. Stravinsky is just fucking wacko in the best musical way.
My favorite orchestral version of this is th-cam.com/video/EkwqPJZe8ms/w-d-xo.html
One of the great things that happens in this piece is in the second movement where all the basses just chug and crunch on that Eb7/E with random spikes in it - some say it's the first hard rock performance. Edge as fuck. Also the first Fantasia Disney film uses this piece for a bit about the evolution of early lifeforms up to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Jules is the GOAT! and several other farm animals... thats how good she is.
Love you, darling!
wake up babe. jules uploaded a new video