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When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky\u00a0<\/i>by Lauren Stringer:<\/a><\/strong> This is the story of how the famous composer, Stravinsky, and the famous dancer, Nijinsky, collaborated to create a performance of Stravinsky\u2019s work that was so shockingly avant-garde that it caused a riot in the streets of Paris.* Can you imagine a ballet<\/i> so shocking that it caused fistfights and screaming matches across the aisles of a sophisticated French theater in 1913? Astounding!<\/p>\n This book is to be read with \u201cThe Rite of Spring<\/a>\u201d playing in the background or not at all \u2013 the illustrations complement the music in a way that\u2019s truly special. It\u2019s so necessary to really enjoying the book that I\u2019m a little mad it doesn\u2019t include a CD, but of course you can always get the music independently from the library \u2013 whether you want it on CD<\/a> or if you want to download it directly from Freegal<\/a>!<\/p>\n \u00a0*Please note: the library cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your home or car by riots this book\/music may cause.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky\u00a0by Lauren Stringer: This is the story of how the famous composer, Stravinsky, and the famous dancer, Nijinsky, collaborated to create a performance of Stravinsky\u2019s work that was so shockingly avant-garde that it caused a riot in the streets of Paris.* Can you imagine a ballet so[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11,1],"tags":[378,1811,2307,2306,2308,2301,3253,2130],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music","category-reference","tag-children","tag-childrens-books","tag-classical-music","tag-composers","tag-dance","tag-illustration","tag-music","tag-picture-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"when](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/when-stravinsky.jpg?resize=600%2C330&ssl=1\")
<\/a>“The Rite of Spring” is the music playing during the death-of-the-dinosaurs segment in Disney\u2019s Fantasia<\/a>, or as my childhood self knew it, “one of the scary parts!” This is powerful music, and accompanied by powerful, beautiful illustrations, this book is one to check out.<\/p>\n