Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring" -- Documentary ExcerptTheGreatPerformers8 min 58 sec - Jun 5, 2007Sir Simon Rattle speaks of the music, its rhythm, and conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky used to talk of how violent the Russian spring really was---especially with the loud ice breaking up in St. Petersburg "You would
hear the ear-splitting cracking reverberating around the city all day"