Les Siecles/ Francois-Xavier Roth - Ballets RussesIn the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionized the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with it's insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamized the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard of places. Among the very first musicians to perform these works on the instruments that

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and Sculler's Jazz Club

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which is existing till today

'incorporating traditional and modern Afro-Cuban

the casalQuartett came across not only Carl Czerny

four electric basses and a drumset into an orchestra that has never before existed in this form

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and frequent breaking of harmonic and contrapuntal rules

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ex Therion) laying the foundation for the band and bringing his own brand of thunder