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Music Matters: Stravinsky 50 - Reinventing Stravinsky!

Stravinsky 50

Stravinsky 50 - Reinventing Stravinsky!

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Stravinsky 50 - Reinventing Stravinsky!

Tom Service explores how the music of Stravinsky continues to resonate in today's world.

Tom Service and guests explore how the music of Stravinsky continues to resonate in today's world as we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

As we commemorate 50 years of the death of Igor Stravinsky, Tom Service explores how his music continues to resonate in today's world, how his legacy has been in effect reinvented, from contemporary composition to film scores, from digital sampling in pop to the language of jazz, and also in the world of dance.
 
With contributions from the composers George Benjamin, Anders Hillborg, Shiva Feshareki and Helen Grime, explaining how Stravinsky's music has shaped their work and their lives; from the musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker, Robert Fink and Jonathan Cross, who elaborate on how Stravinsky has been reinvented on many different contexts since his death; and we also hear from the dancer and choreographer Seeta Patel, who reinterpreted the iconic ballet 'Rite of Spring' within South Indian classical dance traditions.

Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

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