Len Fehskens ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Chris Bonds writes:
>
>>Don't forget that Le Sacre caused a riot at its premiere
>
>I thought the "riot" was less about the music and more about the costumes
>and choreography of the ballet?

IIRC there was also a riot at the premiere of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony
No.1 (1909?) and at Debussy's Jeux (just a couple of weeks before the Rite).

Deryk Barker
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