Tagged: Igor Stravinsky

IGOR STRAVINSKY’S RITE OF SPRING –Part Two

As it stands however, Disney’s scenario for The Rite of Spring depicted fairly accurately the scientific theories current at its time. …the animators knowingly took some creative liberties — the climactic battle between a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex could...

IGOR STRAVINSKY’S THE RITE OF SPRING — Part One

The most lengthy segment in Fantasia. At the time of the film’s release in 1940 this “pantomime ballet” by Russian émigré Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) had been composed only 27 years earlier, making it the newest music included in the program....