![]() ![]() It’s a notion that no doubt divides music lovers today as much as when the piece was first, um, heard… ![]() A conceptual work in “three movements” that requires the performer of any instrument to sit in silence for four minutes and 33 seconds, it's all about exploring the ambient-or “other”-sounds heard in a musical performance, and takes Cage’s notion that all sounds can constitute music to the very limits. Would you call four minutes and 33 seconds of "silence" music? John Cage did when he "composed" 4’33” in 1952. They didn't even let the music be played for the overture and as soon as it was known that the conductor was there, the uproar began.” When interviewed about performing in the premiere, dancer Lydia Sokolova said the audience indeed “had got themselves all ready. A Ballets Russes ballet as controversial for its subject matter (a sacrificial pagan ritual in which a virgin dances herself to death, described by one critic as “puerile barbarity”) and Nijinsky’s forceful choreography as it was for Stravinsky’s "savage" music, it seems The Rite’s premiere was destined for chaos. Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring was famously greeted with a riot when it premiered at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 1913. From explosive premieres to outrageous subjects, here are seven of music’s most controversial offerings. They may hail from different eras and diverse parts of the world, but all these pieces have one thing in common: they have all turned heads in the classical music establishment. ![]()
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