Dance
'What I Wished to Express in The Consecration of Spring' - Stravinsky on The Rite @ 100
Arts Ed in California: A Detective Story
You'd think that for an issue so many care so passionately about, quantifying the amount and quality of arts education in public schools would be easy. After all, how can you make a case for action if you can't back it up with any evidence? 'It Still Kicks Ass' - Esa-Pekka Salonen on The Rite @ 100
"It's an old caveman reaction--now you have to be prepared to leap even higher than ever before because the saber-toothed tiger is just behind you--and I love it," Salonen said of facing the piece's finale, with its tricky, irregular and shifting rhythms.