He knew he was making Diaghilev nervous and he enjoyed it because (I think) he knew he had just written something that would shift the course of classical music. If you make that face then you are a ballbuster with confidence in your craft and its oddities. Bravo and stuff.
See this is why I hate RU-vid so many of my comments over the last 10 years have been varied or simply deleted this is a brilliant observation about Steve Buscemi! Son-of-a-bitch! I like it
I find it thrilling the way he says "I remember I slept very well" as if he knew back then inside those walls that he was in the making of something that would change music forever
I know right it's like another interview where he talks about going back to Russia after all these years and he's talking about the cutlets that they served on the plane and the vodka. I have a feeling that he could be a drag at a party
Thank you very much. Stravinsky is one of my all time favorite composers. I am a Music Major and Composition student with aspirations of writing film, video game, and other scores. This video is great!
"He didn't want to offend me, so he said only one thing, which was very offending. He said, 'Will it last very long?' I said, 'To the end, my dear!'" HAHAHA P. S. Fatova Mingus, you are a gem for uploading these videos. I can't tell you how much they have helped me in studying for A Level music. In fact, I've watched your Sacre videos all over the world, even in Prague, where I was afraid people would come knocking on my hotel door!
It's almost inspiring to see how emotionally sincere he is, especially when he's explaining the incident between him and Diaghilev. I actually got choked up a bit.
He's talking about a very new chords that there's no theory behind the right and that expression says it all! Nice catch. These documentaries in full form are on Vimeo under my name
Listening again for the first time in many years. 0:50... an eight-note chord? There's an octave doubling though, so actually it's seven notes? I've got an E major in the left hand with a doubled root, and an E♭7 in the right hand. I'm pretty sure that Stravinsky thought in polychords, but in jazz nomenclature I think this is an E13maj7♯9♯11.
I guess he just considers the octave as another note, it's reasonable, because he is probably thinking of the specific voicing... Nowadays it's probably weird because how some things are taught, but it makes sense, it's not the same note, it's an octave higher, if you get my line of thinking and what I assume is his too
I really appreciate all of the videos you post. I refer our Russian cultural history students to The Joffrey Ballet Rite of Spring performance as well as these kinds of Stravinsky interviews. Thank you so much!
I'm not sure if you know, but there's a video where it's 10 minutes of Igor Stravinsky playing this chord in this very clip. It's like he's trying his absolute hardest to be annoying in a musical genius-type way. He was certainly brilliant, and changed music forever. What he wrote in The Rite of Spring was very, very uncommon back when it premiered, and it's no wonder people hated it. But it lived to be one of the most recognizable classical works in history.
I hardly understand his english. Notice how he pronounces his own name at 0:39. Usually in Russia it has accent on first syllable, Ígor, but he accented the second syllable, Igór. That accent is like all accents in The Rite of Spring :)
Stravinsky was also fluent in french I believe, so it's probably due to years introducing himself in French and French having accents on the last syllables.
When I started this channel in 2007 it was about the ballet for the right of spring the original nazinski over time because I love Stravinsky and grew up listening I got to know a lot of the students the theory students because they were forced to watch the ballet you must go and look at the comments they're hilarious but the interesting thing is this: almost all of them came back and made another comment. I am not a theory student I have no degree however this is where the ballet continues to be danced right here on RU-vid and I work with the Stravinsky foundation and I work with Hudson and Archer and everyone is aware that this is where the ballet is still being danced thank you for visiting! please forgive the lack of punctuation I am talking and not saying the punctuation out loud hahaha
@Insomniac571 I have a few others on my channel and inside the videos which are about Le Sacre du Printemps. Most of the Janos Darvas interviews with the maestro are on the internet. Do you have "Once at a Border"? Great great video. Worth the money.
I don't think he would have been using anything electric. Had electronics gone further than Luigi Russolo at this point? You might know better than me.
I just listened to- without watching - the Indy performance. It was embarrassing. I have a high school band on my channel playing the Rite without changing time signatures or adding a "jazz beat" to it and BD couldn't do that? Are they too inept to play it as written or do they assume we can not hear it unless it's in common time:?
If you just Google the Amsterdam piano quartet they have it on their site but I know there's a video here on RU-vid that will run you through the entire score with the sheet music
Great video! I get goose bumps, too, when I listen to The Rite. You asked “what was Stravinsky like?” Here he is talking about composing The Rite of Spring, about 50 years later. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3vwq1AyYGzo.html
It's a SEVEN note structure, not eight. What's he talking about? The bass note is doubled. Odd that he said that. F flat, A flat, C flat, G, B flat, D flat, E flat. Its not an 8 note chord. Thats crazy.
He was talking also about fb’s repetition, that is in the score, not only concerning different notes. You don’t have to teach Stravinsky, dear, do you?
