The ballet that incited a riot - Iseult Gillespie

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  • @54Shadowolf
    @54Shadowolf 5 років тому +2104

    When you see someone not being graceful in a ballet
    The audience: someone hold me back

    • @jauxro
      @jauxro 5 років тому +84

      I wonder if they felt mocked? As if the performers were saying "look at this horrible dancing! we got _you_ to pay for this! ha!"

    • @cardiaccoder9622
      @cardiaccoder9622 5 років тому +2

      How horrifying

    • @mikanchan322
      @mikanchan322 4 роки тому +21

      @@jauxro I'd be kinda mad if I went to a concert and it looked like the band was messing around and the singer purposely wasnt singing in tune

    • @namelesssoul104
      @namelesssoul104 3 роки тому +13

      I don't think that was the reason, maybe it was the eeriness, the uncanny music and grusome plot showed through a raw threatening dance......
      Art creates feelings. This dance was made to create fear and anger throwing the public on edge....I think that's what caused the riot.
      It means the show was a huge success. If if managed to provoke the audience with feeling to that extent

    • @manuelhe46
      @manuelhe46 Рік тому +1

      @@mikanchan322sound like punk rock

  • @shaunyap4090
    @shaunyap4090 5 років тому +3180

    It's the Riot of Spring

    • @ona9960
      @ona9960 5 років тому

      Check out Teodor currentzis conducting the actually riot of spring ua-cam.com/video/p3VX6-4VTs4/v-deo.html

    • @AishaVonFossen
      @AishaVonFossen 5 років тому +8

      I see whatcha did there. :P

    • @minms38
      @minms38 5 років тому +5

      "Rite" riot

    • @geoleo965
      @geoleo965 5 років тому +13

      @@minms38 Thanks for explaining the joke; no, I am not being sarcastic.

    • @minms38
      @minms38 5 років тому +2

      @@geoleo965 thanks you

  • @carlosgeonzon7499
    @carlosgeonzon7499 5 років тому +2339

    The background music is so agitating. Which prooves that the piece was phenomenal

  • @Matt10670
    @Matt10670 5 років тому +2076

    Stravinsky: Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.

    • @davidribosome4326
      @davidribosome4326 5 років тому +13

      Lmao

    • @harlowitter3060
      @harlowitter3060 4 роки тому +8

      Yup

    • @erichkeithly7182
      @erichkeithly7182 4 роки тому +29

      Love the joke...
      Unfortunately most kids have never heard this wonderful piece.

    • @dianamations9371
      @dianamations9371 4 роки тому

      Hahahaahaha

    • @uvn6210
      @uvn6210 4 роки тому +8

      Erich Keithly ehhh most band and orchestra students have at the least heard of the bassoon solo in the beginning. It’s iconic within the bassoon community!

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy 5 років тому +2769

    So actually, the audience wasn't sophisticated enough.

    • @noelstar1456
      @noelstar1456 5 років тому +178

      There's modern speculation that some people were paid to riot to create controversy around the ballet as a form of clever advertising.

    • @b_uppy
      @b_uppy 5 років тому +56

      @@noelstar1456
      Makes sense, who could afford to throw around foodstuffs?

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 5 років тому +20

      Noel Star No such thing as bad publicity, right?

    • @michaelhansell1116
      @michaelhansell1116 5 років тому +49

      Or you could say, the audience heard/saw a message they disagreed with and rejected. They were sensitive enough to have received the message and its meaning unlike many audiences today who just hear it as "classical music" (which it is not). There's no reason we always have to accept every message offered to us by an artist - audiences and artists alike have freedom of expression. My point is, maybe the audience understood something back then that today's audiences miss, or we today are dulled to a message that now we accept uncritically. Just a thought!

    • @canterlevi
      @canterlevi 5 років тому +29

      Michael Hansell I like to think we’ve become more sophisticated and can appreciate what Stravinsky and the choreographer were saying. He was actually ‘ahead of his time’ with The Rite of Spring. We’ve not been dulled, actually, we’ve finally caught up with his thinking.

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 5 років тому +2721

    As the times have passed, "The Rite Of Spring" was played while Dinosaurs were all gone to extinction in Disney's *_Fantasia._*

    • @jasepoag8930
      @jasepoag8930 5 років тому +90

      Thank you, the entire time I was like "Why is this music making me thing of dinosaurs?" I watched Fantasia almost daily as a young child.

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 5 років тому +8

      @@jasepoag8930 You welcome. Just watching it last time and it's tragic.

    • @BigattckFirecat
      @BigattckFirecat 5 років тому +7

      So that was why it made me sad

    • @dennysdonuts4918
      @dennysdonuts4918 5 років тому +4

      I don't remeber liking Fantasia, possibly because I saw it as scary and unnatural, and watching this helps explain why I feel uncomfortable watching it.

    • @LupinLovebites
      @LupinLovebites 5 років тому +5

      This is why it's in my top five fave pieces of classical music. It's because dinosaurs are magical, it makes the music so compelling. Prehistory has a score, and that is Rite of Spring.

  • @athomicritics
    @athomicritics 5 років тому +488

    you should do an episode on "the mute girl of Portici" as "The opera that started a revolution" which started belgian independance

  • @kaitlnwhite6809
    @kaitlnwhite6809 5 років тому +319

    Stravinsky did both “The Rite of Spring” and “Firebird” which also both appear in Fantasia. Kudos to him.

    • @PADARM
      @PADARM 4 роки тому +6

      And kudos to Disney

    • @alvexok5523
      @alvexok5523 11 місяців тому

      I like Firebird. As for Rite of spring, I looked it up just now because I remember how unique the music of it is. But until I scrolled by this video, I totally forgot that there was something said about riots breaking out during the performance, and I remembered that I watched half of this video once before, but never knew until now when (looking it up on Wiki) and seeing the rest of this video the full reason why this piece was so rejected.

  • @soymikleo
    @soymikleo 5 років тому +826

    I haven't even finished the video but that animation tho 😍😍

  • @omeleteazulproducoes8196
    @omeleteazulproducoes8196 5 років тому +604

    When you see TED-Ed talking about Stravinsky
    **happy dissonant noises**

    • @UniversalDirp
      @UniversalDirp 3 роки тому +7

      Now time to wait for them to do the story of shosty9

  • @pranjalshilkar8329
    @pranjalshilkar8329 5 років тому +218

    Okay, I absolutely have to say that I have observed that this creator, Iseult Gillespie, brings the best and I mean, the BEST freaking lessons every single time. In the very minute chance that if you're reading this, you are FREAKING AWESOME !

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 5 років тому +309

    One of my favorite scenes from this ballet is (their interpretation is shown at 2:33) when the sacrificed girl is chosen, and all the other young women not chosen dance in a rhythmic dance which contorts their bodies in strange ways. It's kinda terrifying honestly.

    • @accordingtosophia
      @accordingtosophia 5 років тому +17

      My favourite performance of this ballet has to be the one by the Geoffery Ballet. The dancer really gets into character, and she starts shaking before she starts that final dance, and she looks absolutely terrified. It's amazing!

    • @kaitlynreynolds5192
      @kaitlynreynolds5192 3 роки тому

      @@accordingtosophia Ballet Russe did a good one in 2008 too

  • @musicallydisneyamvs6731
    @musicallydisneyamvs6731 5 років тому +115

    A good reminder that art is limitless not limited. Love this! Wonderful job.

  • @Cheshire1501
    @Cheshire1501 5 років тому +768

    In other words, the 1913 version of "how dare you put politcs into my art!"

    • @veryberry39
      @veryberry39 5 років тому +45

      "stick to what ur good at"

    • @Frooti.loopz23
      @Frooti.loopz23 5 років тому +30

      Humans never change I guess

    • @godzillavkk
      @godzillavkk 5 років тому +15

      Toxic fandom.

    • @Edgelordess
      @Edgelordess 4 роки тому +6

      Oh if you thought this was provocative, you need to listen to Shostakovich's works. (though I also love Stravinsky)

    • @bradenvester4308
      @bradenvester4308 4 роки тому +1

      godzillavkk lol

  • @Jonasanoj
    @Jonasanoj 5 років тому +63

    I knew that the video would be about “The Rite of Spring” as soon as I saw the title, school has taught me something after all! :D

  • @sarielpg
    @sarielpg 5 років тому +446

    Try being in marching band and doing a drill to Rite of Spring, you'll want to riot too. Seriously. We marched to part of Rite of Spring in college. It was...not fun.

    • @sarielpg
      @sarielpg 5 років тому +10

      @ Yes, yes it is.

    • @katiebethbrandt6435
      @katiebethbrandt6435 5 років тому +1

      Which school did you march with?

    • @sagebauland4276
      @sagebauland4276 5 років тому +42

      That’s a terrible idea. One of the most iconic parts of rite of spring is the bassoon solo. And marching band doesn’t include double reeds

    • @treenutspeanuts
      @treenutspeanuts 5 років тому +15

      sarielpg but marching drill to firebird was magical. this was our seniors absolute favorite season. the judges thought so too 👀👀👀

    • @daniel_k_music
      @daniel_k_music 5 років тому +1

      That sounds pretty awesome, actually. Is there a recording of it out there?

  • @sairbanana7393
    @sairbanana7393 2 роки тому +46

    “Composed on the cusp of both the First World War and the Russian Revolution, the Rite of Spring seethes with urgency.” That gave me chills.

  • @spyrosk.1881
    @spyrosk.1881 4 роки тому +121

    Fun fact: the last four chords played by the orchestra spell the word "D-E-A-D".

    • @-TheCommenter-
      @-TheCommenter- 4 роки тому +25

      Might want to check that; I believe those notes are in the last chord alone.

    • @theemraldwolf5874
      @theemraldwolf5874 9 місяців тому

      ​@-TheCommenter- Yeah you're right it's the last chord they must have just got it mixed up

  • @emmalinesheahan4788
    @emmalinesheahan4788 5 років тому +173

    I think it's actually incorrect to refer to the ballet as "Stravinsky's" and I kind of don't appreciate how much Nijinsky was downplayed. Stravinsky was hired by Diaghilev to compose for the Ballet Russe, of which Nijinsky was the lead choreographer at the time. It was a collaborative effort if anything

    • @ilovegon75
      @ilovegon75 5 років тому +4

      They touched on the choreographer too however, ballet will always be ballet. Music is forever changing and evolving. That’s why it’s so important to say that Stravinsky started a riot with his ballet. Lol

    • @emmalinesheahan4788
      @emmalinesheahan4788 5 років тому +9

      @@ilovegon75 I'm an actual dancer... Ballet is not always "just ballet." Evan Winther put it nicely. Ballet and dance has been evolving since it's inception; if you think Forsythe or Killian's ballets are the same thing as Petipa and Ivanov's, you're very mistaken. Dance is as much an art form as music, and it's inadequate to Nijinsky and his genius/legacy to paint him and his choreography as an after thought.

    • @rubenvo3627
      @rubenvo3627 5 років тому +5

      I believe Diaghilev was more instrumental to Stravinsky´s work than people seem to credit him in this comment section or even in the video itself. (especially later on, e.g. Neoclassicism)

    • @ilovegon75
      @ilovegon75 5 років тому +1

      Evan Winther as far a technique goes, yes ballet will always be ballet. When you start doing other things then it’s called something else like jazz, hip hop, etc.

    • @Akuninjia
      @Akuninjia 4 роки тому +1

      I agree, because yes, people were outraged at the music, but that changed quickly: soon after the piece started being performed orchestrally, just without the ballet part.
      People in the audience were literally screaming "get them a dentist!!!" when the ballet dancers took the pose with their cheek resting on their closed fist.
      The music and the choreography together were without a doubt what ignited the riot, but like...the music has been performed to our days, the choreography was completely lost until 1987 when (after years of hard work) Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer recreated it with Joffrey Ballet, with the help of Marie Rambert, that was in her late 80s/early 90s!

  • @GABRIEL_CRAFT
    @GABRIEL_CRAFT 5 років тому +14

    TED-Ed is an oasis for old and young on UA-cam. Thank you so much!

  • @donnierussellii4659
    @donnierussellii4659 5 років тому +28

    "There's rioting in Paris!"
    "That's the third one this week!"

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 5 років тому +1536

    Why can't cows do ballet?
    Because they lactose.

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 5 років тому +15

      Nice

    • @abijithp92
      @abijithp92 5 років тому +4

      Lactose is a protein

    • @this_is_patrick
      @this_is_patrick 5 років тому +21

      @@abijithp92 Cows lactate milk, milk contains the -protein- sugar lactose, lactose = lack toes. It ain't that hard to understand.

    • @abijithp92
      @abijithp92 5 років тому +1

      @Aiswarya Venugopal മലയാളി ആണോ?

    • @abijithp92
      @abijithp92 5 років тому +1

      @Aiswarya Venugopal O...wow...
      I guessed it right....
      So are you staying in US or something?

  • @thesoundsmith
    @thesoundsmith 5 років тому +14

    I was trained (by a poor music teacher) to HATE classical music. Until the Rite of Spring. I LOVED it, and was able to "back into" the earlier classics Mozart et al. One of his greatest triumphs.

  • @yaoza1459
    @yaoza1459 5 років тому +69

    I thought the title said "The bullet that insinuated a riot" and thought, yup bullets can do that

  • @MonkeyIsotope
    @MonkeyIsotope 5 років тому +4

    Amazing thank you. I was never into these kinds of performances and indeed had that snobby feeling from the few I had seen on TV at some point, until I stumbled on the rite of spring on UA-cam one day. Such raw power... The pagan aspect was intensely beautiful. I was very eager to learn more about it and I'll try to go see it soon. Thanks a lot for the explanations, awesome animations as always too

  • @franzkylemagadia9385
    @franzkylemagadia9385 5 років тому +1

    The satisfying relief you feel after the tense bgm and the outstanding edit of the narration.

  • @nikitaa9122
    @nikitaa9122 5 років тому +37

    Ari Aster's Midsommar has many similarities to the rite of spring, with the mood, music, and folk pagan story. Makes me wonder if this play was used as inspiration.

    • @Rgoid
      @Rgoid Рік тому

      I’m surprised you didn’t go with The Wicker Man.

  • @VanderCreol
    @VanderCreol 5 років тому +7

    I love this Ballet! I've heard it so many times and I've studied the score in such a way for so many years that I have it almost by heart.
    Igor Stravinsky is the greatest composer of the 20th Century.

    • @daniel_k_music
      @daniel_k_music 5 років тому +2

      I can relate with the score studying for this piece. It's so interesting and unique!
      I'm more of a Shostakovich fan, though I do have to give credit to Stravinsky because without his dissonant music, who knows if Shostakovich's music would've even become famous at all?

  • @SergioBobillierC
    @SergioBobillierC 5 років тому +20

    The first time I heard this piece of music was in Disney's Fantasia. There the animators successfully used the ballet to convey primal feelings. The scene shows the development of the life on the earth and how harsh it was. It's been more than 20 years since I saw the movie but I recognized the piece instantly and I immediately knew from where.
    I should say that Disney did a great job mixing the music with the images.

  • @fealubryne
    @fealubryne 5 років тому +1

    I loved watching/listening to this in Fantasia as a kid, it always felt like something I shouldn't quite be allowed to see back then. Knowing the history of it makes it all the more fascinating.

  • @edenicisotope534
    @edenicisotope534 5 років тому

    aw man the voice the sound design and the art of this video is so beautiful man

  • @cgt3704
    @cgt3704 5 років тому +7

    Good thing they didn't introduce it at the Concert in Vienna in the first day of new year. That would have been a chilling way to start a year.

  • @AishaVonFossen
    @AishaVonFossen 5 років тому +11

    Having grown up a Disney kid, of course I first heard some of this music in Disney's Fantasia, and loved it! That fight with the T-Rex and Stegosaurus? Oh God, one of the best fight scenes in all of animation, hands down! :D
    I first learned more about this ballet in a music class my first year of college, I was delighted to learn more about it! I can see why the newness of the ballet might upset some people back during its debut, but a full-on riot? Good Lord, I didn't think it worthy of that much anger! LOL And to think that Stravinsky told the dancers to keep going as the audience erupted into a rage, and they did! Good God!
    When I first heard that this music was from a ballet, I was shocked myself that it was from the ballet, since typically I think of the traditional ballets, like Sleeping Beauty or The Nutcracker, the more "romantic" elements of the genre, as it was put so well. :) But as I've come to accept Rite of Spring for what it is, I like how different it is. The arts are known for ever-evolving, so it's not so far fetched to me that this was weird to audiences when it first came out.
    For some Halloween, I want to go as the sacrificial maiden, I like the costume, it looks cool, relatively easy to pull off, and warm enough to be out in the cold if I bundle up just right. There, I said it. LOL

  • @osse1n
    @osse1n 5 років тому +77

    It's interesting that one becomes more and more interested in such art well into *the adulthood.*

    • @abijithp92
      @abijithp92 5 років тому

      Means?

    • @naznimation
      @naznimation 5 років тому +7

      I’m very interested in such art and I’m 17. There’s no age limit for interest and curiosity.

    • @Matheus_Braz
      @Matheus_Braz 5 років тому

      @@naznimation yo im also 17

    • @yuno6124
      @yuno6124 5 років тому +1

      I’m 13 y’all, what does that say about me

    • @gregcrabling2686
      @gregcrabling2686 5 років тому

      suga kookie I’m 14.

  • @satyarthasaxena4582
    @satyarthasaxena4582 5 років тому +7

    The animation is so beautiful. every frame a painting.

  • @deniseneuman1958
    @deniseneuman1958 Рік тому

    When I was learning how to play the bassoon in high school, I had a tutor to help me.
    He told me this story, about the bassoon figuring prominently in the score and the ballet causing a riot.
    This was so cool to me. I was learning to play an instrument that helped cause a riot!

  • @platonsergiu9454
    @platonsergiu9454 5 років тому +6

    Well, now I gotta see this ballet live, no matter what

  • @christopheraliaga-kelly6254
    @christopheraliaga-kelly6254 2 роки тому +12

    Re.. Stravinsky and Disney:
    When Disney was making "Fantasia", he heard Stravinsky was in LA. So he invited the composer to see the sequence that used "Rite of Spring". Stravinsky had enjoyed other Disney films and eagerly accepted the invitation. As Disney was busy, he got some employee to accompany Stravinsky. However, The composer was an ultra Russian nationalist who was not impressed with dinosaurs galumphing around to his 'mystical music' and gave the hapless employee a ferocious tirade in the best ripe Slavonic before storming out!
    When Disney rang up the man he asked: 'Well, what did Mr Stravinsky think of what we did with his music?'
    'Errrrrr...It made quite an impression on him...'

  • @lois1677
    @lois1677 5 років тому +20

    I need time travel to see this ballet.

  • @rain-qb2xv
    @rain-qb2xv 5 років тому +1

    and omg, i was looking for this piece for a while, forgot the name and now i find it here..the marching part actually scared me back in uni when i was listening to it

  • @jengz96
    @jengz96 5 років тому +98

    I remember hearing this on Disney’s Fantasia!

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 5 років тому +9

      I can feel the Dinosaur's extinction while playing this classic song.

    • @sarahnichols4439
      @sarahnichols4439 5 років тому +3

      I did see the tv film Riot at the Rite that was done in 2005 with Adam Garcia. It is on UA-cam

  • @lakshmiskk484
    @lakshmiskk484 3 роки тому +1

    Ted-Ed is the best thing that ever happened to UA-cam. I'm so grateful for that.

  • @SaxandRelax
    @SaxandRelax 4 роки тому +3

    this video is perfect. made me think about something in a different way. impressive considering I've watched it on youtube like 23 times

  • @DemitriVladMaximov
    @DemitriVladMaximov 5 років тому +9

    This was always my favorite part of Fantasia, and the harsh tone and aggressive music fits well in several parts to the jagged and unforgiving landscape of early earth while the slower portions as life rose from single-celled to complex multi-cellular lifeforms. Even though a lot of the paleontology was wrong in that short, it was still a fantastic production and I still watch it to this day....even if the Tyrannosaur Rex looks too much like an Allosaurus and a bunch of other issues.

    • @podiumman2
      @podiumman2 Рік тому

      The Rite of Spring as used in Fantasia was not true to the music of Stravinsky. The conductor Leopold Stokowski butchered it; actually rearranged it.

  • @angularsquare8757
    @angularsquare8757 3 роки тому +2

    Swear I heard some Star Wars battle music in there. Not to mention Jaws. Staggering great piece.

  • @quintenschouten1731
    @quintenschouten1731 5 років тому +3

    I actually knew this for once! Great video, I love the style!

  • @subhashchander-uj9fj
    @subhashchander-uj9fj 5 років тому +517

    Dance at an Indian wedding also always leads to a riot 😅😂

  • @kokovox
    @kokovox 5 років тому +1

    Great video! We need more videos about culture and art. Thank you for making it!

  • @FTNomad
    @FTNomad 5 років тому +7

    Everything the narrator said is true, but it is always funny how in many reports of the the Rite of Spring leave out the known fact that Astruc (the theatre manager) and Igor are thought to have encouraged/instigated the disruption of the premiere to increase publicity.

  • @canoftoast7306
    @canoftoast7306 5 років тому +1

    All I had to do was read the title and know EXACTLY what they were talking about. I love Rite of Spring.

  • @Monocultured01
    @Monocultured01 5 років тому +1

    Word for the wise: you can find the 1980s Joffrey ballet performance of it here on UA-cam. It's only half an hour long and well worth the watch.

  • @patootien
    @patootien 5 років тому +15

    I grew up on Soviet cartoons and the music sounds very much like the music from those cartoons. It sounds nostalgic to me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @StuartSimon
    @StuartSimon Рік тому +3

    There is another ballet that caused an equally notorious riot in the following decade, also in Paris: Darius Milhaud’s work La création du monde (The Creation of the World). You might want to check it out.

  • @OLBICHL
    @OLBICHL 5 років тому +3

    you sparked my interest... ^^never heard of this before, now I need to find this play!

    • @jassenjj
      @jassenjj 4 роки тому

      Here's the music: ua-cam.com/video/BhsRshwB5q4/v-deo.html
      And after 26:00 is the ballet supposedly as it was presented in 1913: ua-cam.com/video/y1KoNBrAPOc/v-deo.html

  • @leo-db5uj
    @leo-db5uj 5 років тому +82

    Why Russian orchestral melodies so terrifying

    • @WynnofThule
      @WynnofThule 5 років тому +15

      Russians themselves can be terrifying

    • @markshulman3150
      @markshulman3150 3 роки тому +2

      @@WynnofThule i am russian and this still rings true

  • @AngelDucattiforever
    @AngelDucattiforever 5 років тому +1

    One of the best pieces of classical music. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @simengrandal6898
    @simengrandal6898 Місяць тому

    The whole meaning was to shock and provoke in an attempt to immortalize the ballet for all time to come. The reactions from the audience ensured that the performance was not only a scandal, but also a milestone in music history. Stavinskij knew that the chaos would pave the way for a new artistic era - and he was right. The work stands today as a symbol of modernism's breakthrough and one of the most important compositions from the 20th century.

  • @danawinsor1380
    @danawinsor1380 Рік тому

    Whoever hasn't already seen it, I recommend The Joffrey Ballet's version of this ballet with a reconstruction of Nijinski's choreography. Amazingly, they were able to find the original costumes and also interviewed dancers who were in the first performance(s). You can find it here on YT.

  • @webbchildw6164
    @webbchildw6164 5 років тому +3

    As a band kid I heard multiple time and key signatures and I go ugh.

  •  5 років тому

    The collaboration involved here will never be duplicated

  • @jrmetmoi
    @jrmetmoi 3 роки тому +4

    Stravinsky gave birth to the sound of the movie soundtrack

  • @UmamaGoblin
    @UmamaGoblin 5 років тому +1

    True greatness tends to come from true controversy

  • @XIanosX
    @XIanosX 5 років тому +1

    I saw the thumbnail and my first thought that it must be Le Sacre du printemps. I remember talking about that ballet in High School.

  • @vicdelta31415
    @vicdelta31415 3 роки тому +3

    "The primary purpose of art is to challenge it's audience", funny how artists have been doing exactly that for centuries and the audience still feels outraged and wants to put art in a cage, all the time forgetting that art is the only discipline that has empathy and cares for people the most.

  • @peterthompson8014
    @peterthompson8014 2 роки тому +1

    A huge influence on my favorite genres of music prog rock and Prog metal. In fact it's required listening for any prog musician such as myself. 🙂

  • @andrefrazao9245
    @andrefrazao9245 3 роки тому +3

    In the meanwhile Debussy and Ravel were having the time of their lives in the audience 😂

  • @unnamed_boi
    @unnamed_boi 4 роки тому +3

    "classical music is calming" they said

  • @LadyVader33
    @LadyVader33 5 років тому +1

    Good thing Stravinsky's ''Firebird'' was incorporated in Fantasia 2000. Showed off something more optimistic

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 5 років тому +146

    _Ling Ling does not approve of this_

    • @uluhru4evoh
      @uluhru4evoh 5 років тому

      @duchi Komilata Ling-Ling. Okatami yu satakana ya taka!

    • @sarahzaritsky1629
      @sarahzaritsky1629 5 років тому +2

      ua-cam.com/video/eiDqiZhM7Tc/v-deo.html

    • @1007yes
      @1007yes 5 років тому +23

      Ling Ling would have played the entire piece, every instrument, while also dancing the entire ballet.

    • @AbhipshaSahuCoPrezIOFA
      @AbhipshaSahuCoPrezIOFA 5 років тому +9

      Knew I'd find a twoset fan here, hello lol

    • @yuno6124
      @yuno6124 5 років тому +3

      wasn’t expecting this comment actually but I love twoset

  • @maddyandlauren7382
    @maddyandlauren7382 5 років тому +1

    How did I know it was going to be the Rite of Spring before even clicking on the video

  • @rebccalay1299
    @rebccalay1299 5 років тому +2

    Why did I already guess it would be “The Rite of Spring” before the video started.

  • @lizzie3454
    @lizzie3454 2 роки тому +1

    BEAUTIFUL animation!!!

  • @VeronicAM313
    @VeronicAM313 4 роки тому +1

    I remember seeing a VHS copy of this ballet in class and thinking, "Is is what caused people to riot back then?"

  • @Tee-o3p
    @Tee-o3p 5 років тому +1

    You guys are the best educative entertainment. 🦆✨✨✨❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @emiliya7
    @emiliya7 5 років тому +1

    I recognised which ballet it was,because I have read about it on an SAT test.

  • @medhavijayakumar
    @medhavijayakumar 5 років тому +16

    The background is Stravinsky, rite of spring. Some of it. Wow. Unbelievable.

  • @ashleightompkins3200
    @ashleightompkins3200 3 роки тому +1

    I'd love to see a video on the dancing plague. But I never knew that the Rite of Spring had such a chaotic history.

  • @safy0613
    @safy0613 5 років тому +1

    I want to watch it now 👀

  • @wizardofarts1276
    @wizardofarts1276 4 роки тому +1

    Now I reallg want to see the original performance. Though I'm sure I'd be disturbed.

  • @NKWTI
    @NKWTI 4 роки тому +4

    The Rite of Spring was famously used as reference music to Star Wars by George Lucas and ultimately repurposed by John Williams for use on the Jawa sandcrawler/desert scene

  • @leonchan3157
    @leonchan3157 4 роки тому +1

    That sure was one intense ballet session

  • @klarenzcobie6595
    @klarenzcobie6595 5 років тому +10

    I would literally die because of my ingrown nails if I danced in ballet

  • @pablog114
    @pablog114 5 років тому +17

    Don't mind me, just showing appreciation for the great animation

  • @marcoantoniofalquete557
    @marcoantoniofalquete557 4 роки тому +1

    Nicholas Roerich, born Nikolai, was Russian of german descent, and his name was changed to a French version. So, it was most probably pronounced "neekolah" or "nikolaai" "Re rihh", but the narrator achieved the great feat of calling him Rrrow rrrreigh. Wow, how amazing ... kkkkkkk

  • @myongjeong-nam4123
    @myongjeong-nam4123 5 років тому +1

    The ballet movements are me and my group performing after not practicing for a practical evaluation.

  • @starcloak
    @starcloak 5 років тому +2

    This was something very new to me, really interesting video❤️

  • @TristanMA
    @TristanMA 2 місяці тому

    Stravinsky did one more ballet with Fokine, just a year after the Firebird - Petrushka- about a puppet who comes to life with two others, is slain by his rival, and then ressurects.

  • @floydbrennan9789
    @floydbrennan9789 4 роки тому +1

    Ah, Stravinsky. The Jim Morrison of classical music! He also died in 1971--the same year that the lizard king did! LOL! I always felt that Stravinsky and Morrison would have gotten along just fine and I wouldn't be surprised if Jim, while reading William Blake poetry, would be listening to "The Rite of Spring" in the background.

  • @bobc3997
    @bobc3997 3 роки тому +1

    This was the most influential piece of music ever written, a work of pure genius.
    One way to understand this is going from Newtonian physics to modern physics as explained by Einstein.

  • @sohailaji4660
    @sohailaji4660 2 роки тому +1

    And all this time I never knew that Rite of Spring was a ballet

    • @countessD84
      @countessD84 2 роки тому

      Ditto. I used to envision volcanos, evolution, and dinosaurs because of Fantasia. When I finally saw the performance by the Joffrey Ballet group via youtube a few months ago, I could see why people were shocked back then. The dance is so wild and unpredictable, as if the music controls the dancers. I think the unorthodox quality is why the Rite of Spring is so appealing.

  • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
    @ThePhantomSafetyPin 5 років тому +1

    Perhaps the extended lore of *The King in Yellow*, and why it supposedly is mentally disastrous to perform that accursed play, drew inspiration from *The Rite of Spring*.

  • @PuprleFox
    @PuprleFox 5 років тому +1

    I love the music for the Rite of Spring!! It evokes so much emotion

  • @jennamedlyn
    @jennamedlyn 5 років тому +1

    Actually before the premier of the ballet Stravinsky premiered the orchestral music by itself to great reviews. It was the dancing that defied traditional ballet that turned the Parisian public off. And Stravinsky wasn't the first person to defy music of the 19th century. That honor goes to the French impressionists like Debussy, Satie and Faure. They were defying Germanic and traditional romantic compositional styles in the 1890's.

  • @bullcutgaming7749
    @bullcutgaming7749 5 років тому +1

    Yes, finally a music video. Please more

  • @omg9261
    @omg9261 Рік тому

    Very nice. Thank you for the video.

  • @JoeParrish
    @JoeParrish 5 років тому +1

    It doesn't open with dancers, the opening bassoon solo and the rest of the introduction is played before anything happens on stage, and strictly speaking there is no atonality. Also, how are the dancers not one with the music? It's well documented that Nijinsky insisted every beat in the score be danced out in some way, in order to reinforce and double the huge rhythmic impact of the music.

  • @HelgaCavoli
    @HelgaCavoli 5 років тому

    I guess I shall search this ballet now on UA-cam.

  • @namelesssoul104
    @namelesssoul104 3 роки тому +1

    An art build to be uncanny is most appreciated when a frown is thrown at it.

  • @mjstory1976
    @mjstory1976 5 років тому +1

    Awesome and informative video

  • @chanuthgunawardene7579
    @chanuthgunawardene7579 5 років тому +27

    Oh geese how did this happen?!