General Knowledge!

[BFM_Kiwi]

Well one of those two probably. Let Panther go.  He answered your question Mr Pedant    What goes around comes around, as they say!!

[jim360]

W/e

You are up then, Panther!

[BFM_Edison]

The answer is Rory McIlroy.

[jim360]

You're up Panther, if you'd like to go!

[Marty]

BFM_Marty: BFM's official CC Bumper.

EDIT:Apparently, Panther doesn't want to go, so I will.

In what year was Stravinsky's landmark ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered?

This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. It contains such lyrical melodies as well as such staggering discord and outrageous rhythms. You could do a lot worse than watching the version of it that is featured in the original Fantasia (the dinosaur sequence), although that doesn't do it justice - Disney skipped most of the first half and moved other bits around to fit in with the narrative. To be fair, it is over half an hour long.

The piece is in two parts, each starting off with a quiet, subdued idea that over time develops into an explosion of sound and then ends suddenly. This is one of the reasons that Rite of Spring was so revolutionary - most music before it had a definite structure in which melodies or themes were exposed and developed. Rite of Spring contains numerous melodies that are never developed (although they may be repeated), and the sudden creation of new ideas without any introduction.

[BFM_Kiwi]

What year?  I'm not 100% sure which century, much less decade!

I think it was late 1800's or early 1900's.  He's not modern, like in the last 50 years, but he's no so old as classical composers like Beethoven and Bach.

I'm suppose someone who's formally studied music would have a general idea.

I'll guess 1891.

[BFM_JANE]

"This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. It contains such lyrical melodies as well as such staggering discord and outrageous rhythms."

With that many colorful adjectives, it's my favorite piece now too. I'll pull somewhat of a Price is Right move and guess 1851.

(Like those people on PiR who guess $1 more than the highest bid and end up winning, I hate those people)

[BFM_Xtr3me]

1852 

see what i did there? i did that Price is Right move that you hate 

[BFM_Crimson]

1853?

Crimson is going to win!

[jim360]

1917.

[BFM_Kiwi]

1917.

During the great war?

[jim360]

Life doesn't just stop when war is on, you know. 

[MrMxyzptlk]

I've always wondered why a Russian composer titled his piece in French tho....


 


'GOTTA be pre-WWI, so I'm guessing 1912.

[·WídgêT·]

I nearly answered 4 previous questions before I realized how far back the pages went

I think Mxy's close, I vaguely remember hearing about this piece in some music class I took a couple years back, so I'm gonna guess 1914.

[BFM_Fénix]

I shall choose the middle year ok? 1913. XD