The fine minds at Q2, the new music skunkworks at New York City broadcaster WQXR this morning posted an absolutely brilliant 3-1/2-minute compilation of 46 continuous clips of the “Augurs of Spring” section of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Here is ultimate proof of the diversity of interpretation — even for a piece that the composer didn’t believe needed “interpretration,” but just simple playing of the notes from beginning to end. There is even some Canadian content, to make me smile:
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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