On That Note - (It's the) Time Of The Season

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[Sigmapolis]

It's like a "Mach" piece, really.

Beautiful. The delivery on that last line is perfect.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Maybe the all-time "you know this melody but could not name it" tune...



This used to TERRIFY me as a kid (and not just that *one* scene)...



It was remarkably controversial when it came out, too, which seems bizarre for a piece of classical music in 2019, but this article is fascinating to me...

https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/991110.motm.riteofspring.html

Almost no musical work has had such a powerful influence or evoked as much controversy as Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring”. The work's premiere on May 29, 1913, at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, was scandalous. In addition to the outrageous costumes, unusual choreography and bizarre story of pagan sacrifice (note from Sigmapolis -- like many ballets, the plot is kind of thin, but it involves a pre-modern, pagan, Russian society sacrificing a young woman to ensure a bountiful year, who is then "executed" by dancing herself to death), Stravinsky's musical innovations tested the patience of the audience to the fullest.

Harvard University professor Thomas Kelly suggests that one of the reasons that the Paris premiere of "The Rite of Spring" created such a furor was that it shattered everyone's expectations.

The music itself was angular, dissonant and totally unpredictable. In the introduction, Stravinksy called for a bassoon to play higher in its range than anyone else had ever done. In fact, the instrument was virtually unrecognizable as a bassoon (I actually thought it was an oboe for years, amazing). When the curtain rose and the dancing began, there appeared a musical theme without a melody, only a loud, pulsating, dissonant chord with jarring, irregular accents. The audience responded to the ballet with such a din of hisses and catcalls that the performers could barely hear each other.

Backstage at the premiere, Nijinsky shouted at the dancers while Diaghilev tried to suppress a possible riot by flashing the house lights. Stravinsky himself fumed at the audience's response to his music. If nothing else, the ballet's premiere managed to instill in the audience the true spirit of the music. As Thomas Kelly states, "The pagans on-stage made pagans of the audience."

I know most posters on here are fans of pop and rock since roughly 1960, but the spirit of experimentation and innovation we have in music in the second half of the Twentieth Century definitely traces itself back to European composers like Stravinsky.

Rite of Spring is better with the Fantasia animation to accompany it. IMHO

I love Fantasia though

 

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[cyhiphopp]

Let's get a little different genre in here

 

[cyclones500]

A "seasonal downer," but fits the topic. (Yes, I can find a way to get CVB into nearly any category )

"There's nothing in this world more bitter than spring."

 

[jcyclonee]

Although it doesn't directly mention Spring, this song certainly evokes images of Spring.
By the way. I could not find a link to the original video.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Rite of Spring is better with the Fantasia animation to accompany it. IMHO

I love Fantasia though

A great interpretation, no doubt, though I like the piece for its own sake.

It is like a "Strawberry Fields Forever" of the classical repertoire -- profoundly weird but strangely and infinitely fetching, nothing being the same again after it came.

 

[CYdTracked]

Kind of an old, sappy song but fits the topic:

 

[CYdTracked]

These 2 may be a bit of stretch but when I think of Spring I think of rain:



Not a huge Luke Bryan so this fits into douche country but like I said... rain

 

[MeanDean]

 

[MeanDean]

Well I told her mama and her papa too
Just exactly what I wanna do
I wanna get married on a night in June
And rock n' roll by the light of the silvery moon

 

[MeanDean]

Spring is here,
the sky is blue.
Whoa! the birds all sing as if they knew.

 

[MeanDean]

We're waxing down our surfboards
We can't wait for June

 

[IsUaClone2]

Donovan's stuff was better with a few brews:


The Beach Boys were better...most of the time:

 

[matclone]

She saved enough
To get back home
When spring replaced the winter
But her dreams were denied
Her pa had died
The word come down from Spencer.

 

[MeanDean]

Winter Spring Summer or Fall, All you got to do is call.

 

[madguy30]