by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Language: English
Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"? What right had he to write the thing? Against our helpless ears to fling Its crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang bing? And then to call it "Rite of SPRING," The season when on joyous wing The birds melodious carols sing And harmony's in every thing! He who could write the "Rite of Spring," If I be right by right should swing!
Composition:
- Set to music by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), no title, 1938, from Three Anti-Modernist Songs, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from the Boston Herald, February 1924, collected in Slonimsky's book Music Since 1900
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-10
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Word count: 69