Welcome to the Spring term! All classes: Let's try a celebration of Spring, (bring earplugs if music bothers you!). i will play a recording of Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" we will attempt to paint and/or interpret in plastic form our response to the music and the unsettling Vernal Equinox going on outside of the studio. Igor Stravinsky's famous composition was inspired by the painter Nicholas Roerich, who shared his vision with Stravinski of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death. It was composed for Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, and when it premiered on May 29, 1913 at the Theatre des Champs-Elsees in Paris caused one of the most famous music riots in history. The audience erupted in catcalls, whistles and fist fights.
i'm sure we can do better than that...see you next week, john.
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