[Revolutionary and Unicorn] — The Dazzling Stravinsky 

Date: March 24, 2023 (Friday) 19:30 

Location: Sun Yun-suan Lecture Hall, TSMC Building, Tsinghua University 

Performers: National Symphony Orchestra • Wind quintet Ensemble Opus 5.1 

Flute / Chika Miyazaki 

Bassoon / Chen Yi-Hsiu 

Oboe / Ruan Huang-Song 

French Horn / Liu Pin-Chun 

Clarinet / Huang Di 

Timpani / Sebastian Efler 

Program: 

Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op. 43*

Jacques Ibert: Trois Pièces Brèves

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, arranged for wind quintet and percussion 

Organizer: Tsinghua University Junshan Music Hall Preparation Office 

Program Notes: Stravinsky, a composer of striking originality, took the Paris music scene by storm before turning 30 with “L'Oiseau de feu”, establishing himself as an artist of sincere, primal, and magical creativity—a true unicorn of the arts. His work “The Rite of Spring”, created in collaboration with dancer Nijinsky, sparked an artistic revolution. The piece begins with an unprecedented bassoon solo, a dark and mournful cry that signals the groundbreaking nature of this composition. Its shifting rhythms and ecstatic woodwind passages, combined with the wild cries of the instruments, pulse with boundless life force. This woodwind quintet arrangement brings Stravinsky’s classic masterpiece to life, with added timpani, capturing the beauty and sorrow of this artistic unicorn.