The Rite of Spring
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The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original
Concept design from Diaghilev's 1913 production
Stravinsky, sketched by Picasso, 1920
Sergei Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1929, as painted by Léon Bakst
First page from the handwritten score of Le Sacre du printemps
Fantasia (1940 film)
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Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sha
The Rite of Spring
…Stravinsky had written music 30 years ahead of its time, suitable to be heard in 1940. Coincidentally, it was in that year that Walt Disney released Fantasia, an animated feature film using music from The Rite and other classical compositions, conducted by Stokowski. The Rite segment of the film depicted the…
Theatrical release poster
Leopold Stokowski conducted the film's score.
Deems Taylor was the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduced each segment in live-action interstitial scenes.
Disney acting out a scene in The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Taylor and Stokowski