Drop the Needle - September 14

Harbison: Three City Blocks, Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), and a rant

There’s been some revolutionary architecture/city planning and reaction to it in the news lately. So, let’s listen to some music about cities, and some revolutionary music that caused a right kerfuffle.

I doubt many of you have heard John Harbison’s Three City Blocks, which is a dioramic and programmatic work suggesting the discordant and cacophonous nat…