{"id":644,"date":"2011-01-23T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2011\/01\/23\/stravinsky-learn-to-love-it\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:46:10","slug":"stravinsky-learn-to-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/stravinsky-learn-to-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stravinsky: Learn to Love it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nQuick, tell me three things you know about Igor Stravinsky\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what, come back after Jason Hardink\u2019s lecture on Tuesday to answer that question. I guarantee you\u2019ll have more interesting answers.<\/p>\n

According to Stravinsky, \u201cThe trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music. They should be taught to love it instead.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe you were introduced to Stravinsky during your music appreciation class in college. Did you love it? Or did you simply listen to The Rite of Spring, take a quiz and then move on to Debussy?<\/p>\n

New York Times columnist Anthony Tommasini loves Stravinsky so much he placed him on the list of top ten composers of all time.<\/p>\n

The Utah Symphony’s<\/a> ongoing lecture series on the composer, timed to coincide with performances of the composer’s work, will give you insight as to why Stravinsky is ranked as one of the great composers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked to several friends about this lecture series. One gasped saying how much she LOVES Firebird<\/em>, and was disappointed she didn\u2019t hear about it beforehand. That is why I\u2019m here. You heard it from me. You already missed the September lecture on Firebird, my friend\u2019s favorite, but you still have a chance to impress your friends with your newfound knowledge about Pulcinella.<\/p>\n

Utah Symphony\u2019s amazing pianist and music scholar, Jason Hardink will dazzle you for an hour with in-depth information on the composer and this work.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you a head start\u2026 Pulcinella was an instant success (much less controversial than The Rite of Spring, also a ballet, rumored to have caused a riotous reception at its premiere). Pulcinella premiered in Paris on May 15, 1920 and the orchestral suite Stravinsky drew from the ballet remains one of his most popular scores. Interesting note for our visual arts enthusiasts: Picasso designed the sets. Maybe the more you learn, the more you\u2019ll love.<\/p>\n

Mark these dates on your calendar so you don\u2019t have to be disappointed:<\/p>\n

Tuesday, January 25th, at 7 PM in the Salt Lake City Public Library\u2019s 4th floor meeting room<\/strong>, Stravinsky\u2019s Pulcinella<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Monday, May 23rd, at 7 PM in the Salt Lake City Public Library\u2019s 4th floor meeting room<\/strong>, Stravinsky\u2019s The Rite of Spring<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Quick, tell me three things you know about Igor Stravinsky\u2026 I\u2019ll tell you what, come back after Jason Hardink\u2019s lecture on Tuesday to answer that question. I guarantee you\u2019ll have more interesting answers. According to Stravinsky, \u201cThe trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-performing-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stravinsky.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 12:57:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98261,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/98261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}