What Stravinsky ballet featured in a 2004 documentary caused a near-riot when it was first performed in 1913?
Rhythm Is It! Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch. The film documents a project undertaken by the Berlin Philharmonic principal conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom who decided to popularize classical music by staging a performance of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" with a cast of 250 children recruited from Berlin's public schools.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (tragedy) Vladimir Mayakovsky is a tragedy in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1913, premiered on December 2 of that year and published in 1914 by the "First Futurists' Journal", later to be included into the "Simple as Mooing" collection. An avant-garde verse drama, satirizing the urban life and, at the same time, hailing the up-and-coming revolution of the industrial power, it featured a set of bizarre, cartoonish characters and a poet protagonist.