Stravinsky Conducts Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Icon: Igor Stravinsky

By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor

Igor Stravinsky belonged to a generation of creators, inventors, artists and scientists who fundamentally rethought human experience. Einstein rewrote the way we understand space and time. The Wright brothers did the same, making it possible to see the Earth from above and to shorten distances. Picasso developed cubism, which was essentially a way of seeing the same object from many vantage points at once, collapsing into a single frame a view experienced over time. And… more »