Indispensable Rite of Spring Recordings to Add to Your Collection, Part 3 (2006 and beyond!)

This is a continuation a series in Rite of Spring recordings, which includes an introduction, explanation of criteria (execution, engineering, interpretation), and six recordings from 1958 to 1997.  Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2 of this series too! Here are the last recordings, including an honorable mention section!

Space Music I: Kepler and the Harmony of the Worlds

PLUTO Credit: NASA

by Henry Myers

If you’ve been online recently, then no doubt you’ve heard about the NASA New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of Pluto, which culminated an almost 10-year long journey across the solar system (space is really, really big) to collect data and take a number of photos, including the one above. Until just a few days ago, the small, icy world had remained tantalizingly out of reach, close enough to know about but much too far away (in fact, almost 40 times our distance to the sun) to be knowable by any other means. For the first time in history, 85 years after its discovery, we now know what Pluto looks like (outside of a few unhelpfully blurry photos from 2003). I can hardly contain myself about it: dwarf planets aside, I’ve been daydreaming about space, checking NASA.gov daily, and otherwise finding cool space things to look at and read about.

Reflections on the Dual-Degree Dilemma

In junior year of high school, when I began researching music/liberal arts dual-degree programs, I ran into this article written by David Lane, the Director of Admissions at Peabody. It is the definitive explanation of the various types of musical/academic combination programs available to undergraduates. I also remember feeling distinctly uncomfortable reading his conclusions about the type of student that should pursue a dual-degree.

Lane differentiates between three hypothetical kinds of students interested in dual-degree programs: a student who has an undying passion for horn performance and marine biology, a student who can’t make up her mind what to study, and a student who wants a conservatory education but whose parents have reservations.

Indispensable Rite of Spring Recordings to Add to Your Collection, Part 2 (1984-1997)

This is a continuation of the previous post in this series, which includes an introduction, explanation of criteria (execution, engineering, interpretation), and three recordings from 1958 to 1978.  Be sure to check out the previous post too! Here are the next three recordings in the series, dating from 1984 to 1997.

Indispensable Rite of Spring Recordings to Add to Your Collection, Part 1 (1958-1978)

It’s no surprise to most people who know me that I’m a bit of a Rite of Spring junkie. For the week of the 100th anniversary of the famously riotous première, I made a point of listening to all of the recordings of the Rite of Spring I have, which is somewhere in the ballpark of 30 recordings.

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