Stravinsky our contemporary

Forty years after his death, celebrate the extraordinary brilliance of Stravinsky by exploring beyond the Rite of SpringIgor Stravinsky died 40 years ago today. I find this astonishing – partly because Stravinsky seems to belong to another era: a century ago, he was conceiving and composing The Rite of Spring, and yet we are only separated by him by just over a generation, and yet his influence and his legacy still seems so contemporary.Stravinsky is the only common influence that composers fr...

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