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Because without the score,
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it's difficult to anticipate which meter is going to come next.
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And you heard the intense percussive effects there.
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But Stravinsky's most radical statement of
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Modernism occurs not here in "Petrushka"
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but two years later in The Rite of Spring.
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It premiered in Paris in May of 1913,
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and it's become something of a cultural icon,
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this whole idea of the Rite of Spring.
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Indeed I have this book,
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and I've had it for quite a while,
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Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins.