Stravinsky’s Journeys Documentary | Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals
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- Journey with us from the glamour of Paris to the sun-kissed hills of Hollywood and discover how Igor Stravinsky was able to transform his art throughout his extraordinary life. One the greatest icons of the 20th century, Stravinsky's legacy continues to inspire creatives today and we met London-based artists to find out how his work has influenced theirs. Featuring high-quality BBC archive footage of Stravinsky conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra in 1965, this film is a chance to immerse yourself in Stravinsky’s incredible journey.
Presented by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Jonathan Cross (series advisor), with contributions from Robin O’Neill (Principal Bassoon, Philharmonia Orchestra), Peter Sellars (director), Anna Meredith (composer), Akram Khan and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (choreographers), Samuel West (actor), Mark Swed (LA Times) and Jonathan Hepfer (artistic director, Monday Evening Concerts).
The Rite of Spring is published by Boosey & Hawkes and used with their permission within this film. Find out more here: www.boosey.com/stravinsky
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Happy Birthday, Igor! Who is watching today?
me watching today
What a beautiful tribute to one of music's greatest masters! I have watched and listened and read and enjoyed and learned from him my entire life, certainly from my student days. Now that I am 82 I am still learning!
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This is best thing I have experienced in the past month. Beautifully filmed and scripted, this video provides enormous inspiration for re-dedicating oneself to higher principles. Stravinsky, the great innovator, fully tuned into the Ultimate Mystery.
UPDATE Nov 2018: Stravinsky conducting the last few minutes of the Firebird in London is a document of epic stature.
Leaving behind everything he knew at the age of 57 to start a new life in a new land. Amazing... Now I understand the sense of adventure I feel in his music. 🎶
Thank you for uploading this. Great documentary.
Thank you for watching! We're so glad you liked it.
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What a wonderful account of Stravinsky. I will be recommending this video to music students embarking on music history in their studies.
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback and for recommending this film to your students.
It was Stravinsky's Octet for Winds that started my classical music journey so many years ago. I was at a concert of the Cleveland Orchestra sometime in the 60's, and after I'd slept through a Haydn symphony or some such, I sat up and took delighted notice at that odd combination of.instruments and strange harmonies. I haven't stopped sitting up and noticing since, and Stravinsky remains at the top of the list. It was moving to see this film of a composer who was still alive when I first heard his music.
That's wonderful, Kurt! Thank you very much for sharing your experience and thoughts - we're glad you enjoyed the film as well.
Eventually you'll get around to Haydn. :o)
EXCELLENT MOVIE! AMAZING IGOR STRAVINSKY, LOVE IT!!!
This is a good documentary. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for your feedback, we're glad you enjoyed it!
very well done. thanks for the great overview
Enjoyed every minute of it. Starting to know Stravinsky and his music and I cannot let him go. He comes again and again to my head.
+Matías Novillo Hinostroza Thanks for the feedback and good luck on your own Stravinsky journey!
Wonderful film! Thank you for sharing! As a young conductor, this information is invaluable to me. I only wish I'd been born sixty years ago. Thankfully, Stravinsky will continue to live on.
Thank you very much for your kind words, Scott! We're so glad you enjoyed it and found it useful. Indeed - he certainly will!
Very very very exciting, interesting, well done, thank you so much❤🙏
A STUPENDOUS documentary. Despite all the university level music courses I have taken, I have always felt intimidated about exploring the music of Stravinsky. Now I am excited to listen and learn more - both about his music as well as his example of living life more abundantly, Gratitude to all beyond measure!
Thank you for watching Jean, and glad this has inspired you to explore Stravinsky!
Igor Stravinsky and his family resided in Montreux, in Switzerland, from 1910 to 1918. He sought the microclimate so favourable to the health of his wife and stayed in Montreux, Clarens and then settled in Morges from 1915 until the end of the First World War. It was in Clarens, in the Montreux's highs, that Igor Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring (1912) and his long walks along Lake Geneva inspired Petrouchka's composition.
It was also in Switzerland that Stravinsky composed, with the Swiss poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, his famous "L'Histoire du Soldat". The premiere took place on 28 September 1918 in Lausanne, Switzerland, under the direction of the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet. Important details but which have been carefully omitted in this documentary which prefers to talk (once again) about the concert for the creation of the Sacre de Printemps in Paris in 1913.
Thanks, very well done!
This is wonderful, very inspiring!
He so enjoys the moment!
What a wonder!
I know
I really enjoyed this and thank you for the links too.
+NutsAboutNuts Thank you for watching! We're so glad you enjoyed it.
It's amazing that the art we now know as fantastic was originally considered scandalous and absurd. When the public first viewed Picasso's work, people hit it with their umbrellas and spat on it. Likewise with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which caused an uproar and a riot.
I am looking forward to another video :)
Огромное спасибо за такой хороший фильм!!! Кроме слова GREAT я также не найду описания лучше.
You're most welcome! Thank you for spending time with us on the channel.
Fantastic
Thank you very much, Roger!
What a wonderful production. It’s funny because I play bassoon (1st bassoon for Tennessee all state) and I have literally the exact same story as the principal bassoonist for the philharmonia. It was my first orchestral love and just thought that was so strange how bassoonists seems to connect the same way to this work.
Thank you a lot you helped a lot on my report
Great to hear that! Thanks for sharing!
No problem📰🎥🎤🎼🎹
For non-musicians these films are entertaining and fun. Serious musicians read the scores, and then watch the films for the same reason.
My favorite Stravinsky story is when he went to Birdland to hear Charlie Parker ...
We are in suspense. What happened at bird land think your paragraph cut off
Happy Wednesday everyone! Just wondering, what's your favourite piece by Stravinsky? We're tied between The Rite and Petrushka, would love to hear your thoughts!
Well, there are so many apart from the Firebird, Petrushka & The Rite. If he had not written these, he would still be considered a great composer for composing The Soldier's Tale, Les Noces, Oedipus Rex, Symphony of Psalms, Symphony in Three Movements & Requiem Cantacles. You can see why the great Diaghilev ballets became a millstone for him. I first heard The Rite as a 10 year old forty years ago (1976) performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bristol and it blew my tiny mind! Stravinsky's music continues to blow my mind and nourish my soul. Thank you to the Philharmonia & Esa-Pekka Salonen for a fantastic series of concerts. Stravinsky sealed his own immortality, so long may his music challenge and sustain us.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply! Have you made it in person to any of the concerts in the series? If not, you can listen again on BBC Radio 3: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03swd7f
The Nightingale is so often overlooked, I feel. It's on par with any other Stravinsky orchestral work, I feel.
BOTH!!!! cant separate those master works!.
There is always something new to discover whenever I hear The Rite -- I hesitate to analyze it too closely (though I have listened to it many times as well as several examinations, such as the one by Tilson Thomas). I like the idea of something remaining mysterious. I like being part of a universal brotherhood (in the company of Robin O'Neill and Samuel West) that is humbled by the power of this music. In my youth I was called an abstract thinker by a teacher and definitely The Rite is a work that I enjoy outside its narrative, loving sounds and rhythms that by themselves are great.
stravinsky wrote his exciting pieces of music what i've heard when i was a child
But Petroushka and The Rite represent only a part of Stravinsky's production! I would indeed add Les Noces, Symphonies pour instruments à vent, Symphony of psalms, Orpheus, Agon and Requiem Canticles as a very minimum list of masterworks...
l'histoire du soldat!!
I agree with your additions, and I'd also add Persephone, Scherzo a la Russe, the Symphony in Three Movements, the Mass, Rake's Progress, the Septet, and Threni.
Apollo!!! Violin Concerto!!!
To me the two most remarkable musical phenomena of the 20th century are Stravinsky and The Beatles.
I would pretty much like to know what Stravinsky's opinion about The Beatles' music was.
Agreed!
Interesting comparison
"Selling" Stravinsky to the masses - one minute of post-1913 music, and even a mention of his serial music is forbidden. To be fair, the Philharmonia Orchestra made a number of distinguished recordings of his music under Robert Craft (as well as Salonen) in the '90's and '00's. If this film gets people started on the Igor journey, it justifies itself.
Nah they mentioned his interest in Webern, though that's all I think. Played a few snatches from his serial works.
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A piece by Stravinsky, 'Funeral Song', thought to have been lost forever has been rediscovered, and we're delighted to announce we're performing the UK Premiere on 19th February 2017 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall! Esa-Pekka Salonen, Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor discusses it in our latest video: th-cam.com/video/uIlvRYYo9uM/w-d-xo.html
www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/1388/london/royal_festival_hall/19_february_2017/inspirations_ligeti_and_ravel
Very good info and thoughts from interesting people. But SO MUCH Firebird.
Stravinsky was not friends with the Kennedys. He met them once.
What was the reason for his revisions of the Firebird?
May I offer a dissenting point of view. Much of this video concentrated on the three Paris ballet scores and very little after that. Yes, we heard a bit of Apollo and Symphony of the Psalms, but these works are rarely performed. Personally I think Prokofiev is the giant of the 20th century because Prokofiev truly had a more profound influence on later composers, especially film composers. Prokofiev is the most-programmed 20th century composer and when did an orchestra ever have an All-Stravinsky concert? The Proms have them practically ever year. The London Symphony did an all-Prokofiev tour back in 2009. I have never seen a standing ovation in Davies Hall then when the LSO performed the 6th symphony. But here is where Prokofiev outshines Stravinsky: range. Prokofiev is Prokofiev whether we are listening to the brutality of Scythian Suite or the quasi rock feel of the last movement of the 7th sonata or the supreme sublime beauty of Romeo and Juliet or the classical simplicity of the Classical Symphony. Plus Prokofiev gave us Peter and the Wolf -- which happened to find its way on a Superbowl commercial. Prokofiev made it to Popular Culture -- Stravinsky did too but 80 years ago in Fantasia. In my humble opinion Alexander Nevsky is the 20th century's 9th Symphony.
to conduct the finale of firebird knowing you wrote it.
I know 9 months... but you are so damn right :´D
Is this edited down from a much longer film? Almost everything on TH-cam is butchered this way.
Thanks for your comments. No, this is the full film.
Excellent survey though some of the interviewees are not as insightful as the others.
"All the best music in contemporary music in the 20th century has been written in relationship to dance," says the choreographer at 9:04, showing all the intellectual sophistication of video game nerds who believe that gaming is the defining artistic medium of our times, or of gun nuts, who believe that the world revolves around the right to bear arms etc
I had a similar reaction to the speaker you cite. Her solipsism is overwhelming.
punkpoetry wait but you didnt even take into account what she actually said. Its pretty much true! Music in the 20th century was changed forever when elvis starting shaking his hips but it had been going on long before that also.
@guiruliu
What are you blathering about? The exact thing she said is "I think that all the best music in contemporary music in the 20th century has been written in relationship to dance", not the pseudo-historical claim you're so inarticulately trying to make. She's talking about contemporary dance, which is an offshoot of ballet, and the modernist music that typically accompanies it, not rock music. And her claim is ridiculous: the greatest works of Ligeti, Berio, Boulez, Carter and other 20th century composers have very little to do with dance even if they feature strongly emphasized rhythms. Avant-garde jazz also has very little to do with dance. Not denying the importance of dance to music throughout history, from Bach to the electronic music of today, but it should be discussed with a bit more perspective than "dance inspired all the best music"
What a pity this otherwise fascinating doco completely glossed over Stravinsky's neoclassical period (from which some of his most famous pieces come) and his 12 tone period. And the only piece we really get to know is The Rite of Spring! Some opportunities missed, I'm afraid.
Hi Tim, thanks for your thoughts on this film. We're glad you liked it. It was actually conceived as part of a series of films that made up an interactive online documentary for a concert series in 2016: philharmonia.co.uk/stravinsky/
You might enjoy checking that out! It has a lot of extra content. This longer film gets split up and is accompanied by several other short films with artists and scholars, including a whole film on his neoclassical period (the video is called "Myths", if you're looking for it on the web doc).
Here it is on its own: th-cam.com/video/yfq4hbAVKOg/w-d-xo.html
As always, we need to balance the needs of marketing a very specific series of concerts with making evergreen content that our audiences will continue to enjoy for years to come. We value the feedback from our online audiences and we appreciate you taking the time to watch and engage with us. Thank you.
There are also films on Agon, Oedipus Rex... See the full TH-cam playlist for this series here: th-cam.com/play/PLqR22EoucCycKB7P9l-h6355HyXnxPqK4.html
@@philharmonia_orchestra thanks for explaining all that, I'll get stuck in later.
Sorry to have problems with this right from the beginning, but no, he wasn't "always on the cutting edge".
Why the dance music towards the end? 27 minutes of the documentary using only Stravinsky's music and then some random electronic dance song plays, completely distracting and diverting all attention and investment in the music of Stravinsky. Unless it's a piece he wrote I'm unaware of???
It's R-Type by Anna Meredith, who is interviewed in the last segment of the film. The whole last segment is about how artists today continue to be inspired by Stravinsky's work, so we wanted to shift the sound world for that segment.
Very informative and enjoyable but why keep playing the early ballets as if he composed nothing after 1913? He composed a lot of absolutely beautiful music from1913 onwards. An opportunity lost I think.
stravinsky's awesome, but you'd think he cured aids the way this documentary praises him... and why did they skip over his other journies, but have to throw in a segment about london?... and what about his personal life and influences? they kind of bounced over important personal landmarks like marriages and children and deaths... things that probably influenced his work... and then focus on hollywood and london instead... i think this documentary is not worthy of covering a complex man like stravinsky.
+vapid Rabbit (vapidRabbit) Thanks for your feedback. The documentary has been designed to fit into a interactive web documentary, which we plug at the end of the film and in the description above: www.philharmonia.co.uk/stravinsky/ There is a lot more detail on his life there. Because Stravinsky led such a rich life, we couldn't cover everything in this film, but thank you for watching and for taking the time to share your thoughts. There are several other films within the website where you can hear from other artists in the Philharmonia Orchestra's Stravinsky: Myths&Rituals concert series, which is based at London's Southbank Centre (the same orchestra you see performing in the archive material in the film, in the same venue), or you can watch them here: th-cam.com/play/PLqR22EoucCycKB7P9l-h6355HyXnxPqK4.html
I wish conductors would NOT exaggerate the length of the last quarter note 'e' at the end of 'the dance of the earth'. Holy Moses, it is becoming a half-note! Yes, there is a line in the score written above it in the tubas, but with the quarter at 168 (prestissimo - which most conductors hardly approach), that last quarter should ring out, yes, but within context. In fact, in both the 1929 or 1940 recordings on youtube with Stravinsky conducting, that quarter is played short, as it is with both Bernstein recordings. The recent one with Rattle is within context. But the ones with Barenboim and Boulez (and this one) are ridiculously long. Otherwise, a short, breezy documentary.
牛逼，没话说，firebird最后一个眼神把渐强表达的带劲。
The live of well-known people that emigrated to US and were speaking French were not that bad as showed in this video (it is not documentary). All entertainment industries were made by emigrants - many Germans, even studio names are after them.
French in XX century was lingua franca - culture and society language.
Why in so much put on LA experience - most of intellects felt bad in US - that country was made on low standards and the consumerism. European culture before and between the wars was on the highest peak but after US became economic hegemony.
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Anna Meredith not a Composer
You daft amateur, know your place.
Great production but boy were there some fruitcakes you interviewed. Damn
This film keeps repeating the Firebird. There is hardly a mention or playing of anything from his distinct and quite different periods after the big three ballets. The commentary seems to promise insights but is shallow beyond belief. It is full of name dropping and hyperbole but no contextual or cultural analysis. It is mutton dressed as lamb throughout. A very poor documentary that is as deep as a puddle.
Hi, thanks for your feedback and taking the time to share your thoughts. We're sorry you didn't find the film interesting. "Stravinsky's Journeys" was conceived as an introduction to Stravinsky for non-experts, within the context of a very specific set of programming as part of our concert series, Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals (2016), and as part of an interactive documentary. It was devised to give a feel of some of the environments that shaped Stravinsky and to touch on the important influence he has on artists living today. Also, to note, there are 7 pieces of Stravinsky repertoire featured in the film. Due to the hugely rich life that Stravinsky lead, we made a decision not to attempt to make this film exhaustive, as that would have required more resources than we had. We hope you'll take a moment to explore the mini-site/interactive documentary that was created for the series, which breaks this longer film up into chapters, and includes other short films featuring key artists in our series: www.philharmonia.co.uk/stravinsky/ We put a lot of work into making these films enjoyable and accessible to a wide range of people, and we hope that you'll take a look at some of our other material if you have the time. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for being brave enough to reply, for which respect! I judged the fiilm on its merits, not the additional materiall that is not the film itself. Maybe you are hitting a bit low? I do not think it is necessary to present what you clearly see as a consumeri-friendly objective. I think that can backfire. I think you under-estimate the attention spans and interest of the viewers you are aiming at.
The wonderful occasion of I.S conducting your orchestra once in the Firebird is not really a basis for a documentary. I concede that there are other pieces shown but this is really not Stravinsky's journey. I'm sure the intentions were good, but you've aimed very low here. Perhaps that is corporate pressure - always a damping influence. Your audience is a lot more sophisticated than the film is clearly anticipating.
Again, thank you for having the courage to reply!
Thanks for your comments. Again, we're sorry this didn't hit the mark for you. Thank you for taking the time to give feedback.