Stravinsky Quotes

“Throughout the whole composition I give the listener a sense of the closeness of the people to the earth, of the commonality of their lives with the earth, by means of lapidary rhythms.”—pg 874 “In the Rite of Spring I wished to express the sublime upsurge of self-renewing nature: the total pantheistic upsurge of the universal sap.” “the annual cycle of forces that are reborn and that fall again to nature’s breast is consummated in its fundamental rhythms.”—both pg 877-8 Taruskin, Richard. “Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: Volume 1” University of California Press, 1996. “if ‘perceptual’ and ‘conceptual’ are meaningful distinctions in relation to a musical mind, then Stravinsky’s powers in the category of the former often appear to be the greater.” “the shifting of accents by varying the meter or by dislocating the beat is, in fact, the one ingredient of the early Stravinskyan legacy that is still a part of the canon of contemporary music, and is still in daily circulation” Craft, Robert. “The Rite of Spring: Genesis of a Masterpiece.” Perspectives of New Music. Volume 5, Issue 1. Winter, 1966. http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/1/3/235