After the Rite

The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky''s The Rite of Spring at the Th??tre des Champs-?lys?es in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history. The third in a series of works commissioned for Sergei Diaghalev''s famed Ballets Russes, the piece combined disjunct tonalities, provocative rhythms, and radical choreography that thr...