{"id":2454,"date":"2011-03-20T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:34:26","slug":"spring-part-1-the-bad-plus-stravinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/spring-part-1-the-bad-plus-stravinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring, Part 1: The Bad Plus & Stravinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the first day of spring and, naturally, Igor Stravinsky is on everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind. Well, perhaps not everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, but he is powerfully on the minds of The Bad Plus. That trio of\"\"<\/a> restless and sometimes disturbing seekers are adapting Stravinsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Rite of Spring<\/i>, a piece that nearly a century ago sent even more shock waves through the music world than The Bad Plus <\/a>sends today. National Public Radio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Weekend Edition Sunday<\/i> launched into spring with a feature on a marriage that seems less unlikely the more you hear about it. To listen to Liane Hansen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discussion with Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and David King, and samples of their work-in-progress, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t only Stravinsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music caused the chaotic stir at the 1913 premier of The Rite of Spring.<\/i> It was ballet music, and no one in the scandalized Paris audience had seen anything like this ballet. Here is some of the Joffrey Ballet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1987 recreation of Nijinksy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choreography. The video cuts off prematurely, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enough to give you a vivid idea of what the shouting was about.<\/p>\n