The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years

The Rite of Spring was so challenging it famously caused a riot at its premiere. Nearly a century on, it's still inspiring innovation – this time Avatar-styleIn 2007, when we programmed Klaus Obermaier's 3D digital version of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the reopening celebrations for the Royal Festival Hall, I was buttonholed by a classical music insider: "This visual stuff is all very well, but it's just too distracting from the music!" If I'd had the wit, I'd have reminded him that th...

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