[Revolutionary and Unicorn] — The Dazzling Stravinsky
[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.