Classical Convert

Saturday Night’s All Rite

I’ve been ill, still am, somewhat. So instead of the usual Saturday night hijinks, me and g stayed in and ended up dumped in front of the arts broadcast on our local public station featuring, amongst other shorts, a really creepy animation about a lost puppet from 1933. Primarily, however there were snippets from operas and ballets, which lead us to discuss such matters and further, into the caverns of youtube where we found this performance of the Rite of Spring which attempts to recreate the original costumes and choreography:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Quite a change after having just seen a bit from Swan Lake! We definitely preferred the primality of this over the prettiness of the other.