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10:54 am
Wed May 29, 2013

What It Means When 'Hip' Albums Top The Charts

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Daft Punk's album Random Access Memories sold 339,000 copies in its first week in stores, the second highest total for any new album in 2013.
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By Chris Molanphy

Originally published on Wed May 29, 2013 6:50 pm

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Music News
4:01 pm
Tue May 28, 2013

Coming Home: The Woody Guthrie Center Opens In Tulsa

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Outside the Woody Guthrie Center, there's a large mural of Guthrie holding his guitar bearing the phrase, "This Machine Kills Fascists."
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Woody Guthrie and the Pampa Junior Chamber of Commerce band, Pampa, Texas, 1936.
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Woody Guthrie in New York City, circa 1943.
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One of Woody Guthrie's notebooks from Coney Island, N.Y., 1945-1949.
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A page from Woody Guthrie's notebook, New York City, 1947.
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Outside the Woody Guthrie Center, there's a large mural of Guthrie holding his guitar bearing the phrase, "This Machine Kills Fascists."
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Woody Guthrie with his parents, Nora Belle and Charley, and brother George, at their home in Okemah, Okla., in 1926.
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Originally published on Wed May 29, 2013 8:43 am

Woody Guthrie's relationship with his home state has always been complicated. The singer-songwriter left Oklahoma and traveled the nation, composing some of the best-known songs of his time and ours. But to many in the state, his progressive political views did not fit with a strong conservative streak during the Cold War period. His reputation there is now closer to a full restoration as Oklahoma opens his archives.

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Deceptive Cadence
1:09 pm
Tue May 28, 2013

Colors Swirl In A Real Rite Of Spring

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Filmmaker Prashant Bhargava and jazz musician Vijay Iyer's project Radhe Radhe: a visually and sonically dazzling collaboration.
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By Anastasia Tsioulcas

Originally published on Wed May 29, 2013 9:36 pm

One of the most brilliant and exciting commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is a new work that references the Russian composer's music — but in an entirely new cultural framework. It's a pairing of film and music called Radhe, Radhe: Rites of Holi.

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Deceptive Cadence
6:03 am
Mon May 27, 2013

Watch A Mind-Blowing Visualization Of 'The Rite of Spring'

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By Anastasia Tsioulcas

Originally published on Tue May 28, 2013 9:28 am

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Deceptive Cadence
6:03 am
Sun May 26, 2013

Why Jazz Musicians Love 'The Rite Of Spring'

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Flutist Hubert Laws is one of many jazz artists to have recorded an adaptation of themes from The Rite of Spring.
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By Patrick Jarenwattananon

Originally published on Tue May 28, 2013 11:05 am

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Deceptive Cadence
6:03 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Leonard Bernstein's 'Rite of Spring' Thrill Ride

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Leonard Bernstein leads the London Symphony Orchestra. He called Stravinsky's famously savage Rite of Spring "extremely tuneful and dancy, rhythmically seductive, beguiling."
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If you think all the twitchy rhythms and random shards of melody flashing through Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring sound complicated, consider the poor musicians who have to learn it. And then there's the conductor, who needs to perfectly place every piccolo tweet and bass drum boom.

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Deceptive Cadence
5:55 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'

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An image from the 2013 production of Le Sacre du Printemps by the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, reflects the hard jumps and stamps of Vaslav Nijinsky's original choreography.
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Dancers in folkloric costumes, moving unpredictably to pounding chords, characterized the 1913 Rite of Spring premiere at Paris' Champs Elysées Theater.
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Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 1:19 pm

One hundred years ago this week, a ballet premiered that changed the art world. Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps — The Rite of Spring — was first seen by the public on May 29, 1913, in Paris. As the orchestra played The Rite's swirling introduction, the audience at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées began to murmur. Then the curtain opened.

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Deceptive Cadence
2:41 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

The Cocktail Party Guide To Igor Stravinsky

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Don't be caught "Stravinsky deficient" as the big centennial of his Rite of Spring approaches.
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Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 4:21 pm

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Deceptive Cadence
11:56 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Sidney Insists On Stokowski's Stravinsky

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Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. His new book is Helguera's Artunes. You can see more of his work atArtworld Salon and on his own site.

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