Triumphant performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps
Igor Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when he was recruited by Sergei Diaghliev to create works for Diaghliev’s Ballets Russe. Firebird and Petrushka were composed first and then the seminal Le Sacre Du Printemps. Subtitled “Pictures Of Pagan Russia”, Le Sacre Du Printemps — or The Rite Of Spring — caused a scandal and a near-riot at the premiere on May 29, 1913. Almost as…