The arrival of Where the Wild Things Are was the aesthetic equivalent for the picture book that the famous 1913 premier of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was for modern music–electrifying, controversial, precedent setting–a point of departure from which there could be no easy return to the same old forms and subjects.
-John Cech, Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak
Posts Tagged ‘Igor Stravinsky’
Kablam!
Published June 15, 2009 by Molly
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