The Rite of Spring Gillian Moore Paperback

The Rite of Spring Gillian Moore PaperbackOn 29 May 1913, at the Thtre des Champs Elyses in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When the curtain rose on a cast of frenziedly stamping dancers, a near riot ensued, ensuring the evening would enter the folklore of modernism. While it was

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