there's a book by a Cdn historian named Modris Eckstein called "The Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age".
it's all about the first world war, but the first 85 pages is devoted to talking about the first performance of stravinsky's rites of spring in paris in 1912 sort of marked the birth, in some ways, of the 20th century.
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there's a book by a Cdn historian named Modris Eckstein called "The Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age".
it's all about the first world war, but the first 85 pages is devoted to talking about the first performance of stravinsky's rites of spring in paris in 1912 sort of marked the birth, in some ways, of the 20th century.
If they're gonna kill you - dance yourself to death! That kind of sums up the century quite nicely, in fact.
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