Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring for electric guitar, electric bass, and percussion
© 2003 John Ringer (783707850924)
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The Rite of Spring was composed by Igor Stravinsky and first performed in 1913. This is a literal arrangement of the piece for electric guitar, electric bass, and drums/percussion, adapted to the genre of rock music.
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- 1 The Adoration of the Earth
- 2 The Sacrifice
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Though my musical tastes have varied over the years, I've always been a fan of and have been able to appreciate technical proficiency in music. At some point in my familiarity with The Rite of Spring, I thought someone REALLY SHOULD do it as a rock band. After alot of work, I have been able to realize this goal. I wanted to bring the piece as far into the rock genre as possible but still perform as much of the orchestral score as possible. It was a big trade off. To me, the basic unit of rock music is a band with one guitar, one bass guitar and a drummer. If I were to add another instrument it would probably be a keyboard(s) of some kind, but then I think that really would have taken some of the edge off the arrangement (from a purist rock music point of view), and the temptation would have been too great to just use MIDI and program the solo piano score. That really would have been cheating. I wanted to keep the performance- I can't think of any other word- as organic as possible. Anyway, in the end I decided I did in fact need more instruments in a couple of spots to satisfy my artistic vision, so I gave the drummer a glockenspiel and a bunch of bells and stuff, and changed his name from "drums" to "percussion". Please note that most of the arrangement has a regular distorted rock guitar sound, and the song preview does not extend past the beginning "clean" part.
So this is what came out of the project. I am happy with it and I really appreciate you attention to and patronage of my CD!
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This rocks
author: Felipe Irizarry JrThis is a fully realized endeavor.
Worth a good listening
author: Benny NagariFrom a viewpoint of an orchestrator: learn how to amazingly compact a million colous of one pallet into three of a totally different one. As daring as compacting Strauss' Zarathustra into a string quartet with amazing transparency and expression. A superb study of condensed musical imaging and imagination.
Great Idea!
author: Marco PerossaIs is a very interesting record for who is looking for something original and new in Rock Music (very difficult to find now). Making a classical piece arranged for rock instruments must be very difficult but the record is a pleasure to listen to. I hope to hear more from you and I think it would be impressive to hear this opera played on a live concert by a real rock band. Thanks a lot. Marco Perossa
This music premiered with a riot and it still has the same effect!
author: Derry PopeThe rite of spring is the most rebelious piece of 'classical' music and opened in 1913 to a riot! This CD keeps the original intention that Stravinsky had when he unleashed it on the naive audience in 1913. The new working of the ballet with electric instruments would make Stravinsky proud!
if you were curious to see and listen, go for it!...
author: Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal - E - ZineWell... that´s the fact: when you say that you listened to all kinds of musical ideas that can exist in this little earth, there is a guy called John Ringer, born in USA that has a idea to do a ... not exactally rock, but using bass, guitars and drums... adaptation of the classical piece “The Rite Of Spring” writen by "Igor Stravinsky" in 1913. I keep me asking if is he crazy? Can you imagine a opera section with chords, chorus, keys and orchestras converted to a power trio? Well... you don´t need to imagine anymore. He did it. Using two parts (“The Adoration Of The Earth” and “The Sacrifice” - with one of 15 minutes), he does a fantastic job. With a good sense of melody, music, and a fantastic feeling he created a organic masterpiece of classical music without classical elements. Something organic, from the bones I can say. Using the guitar as the master-line and the drums and bass as the background, it worked, it really worked. None of I wrote before can be understood without a good listen to this CD, so if you were curious to see and listen, go for it!...
Interesting take
This is a very interesting concept, and I think it turned out to be pretty damn cool. It's not as dark as the original piece, but it almost comes off as a bit funky. It's different, that's for sure.
Fun.
author: The Auguries QuarterlyI love Le Sacre du printemps. I love it so much that I often weep when listening to it. Although this adaption didn't make me cry, it did make me laugh with joy. Stravinskiy's music sounds jazzy and very much at home on guitar, showing just how ahead of his time the composer was. I was a bit disappointed by the use of a drum machine, but the guitars got the job done with a minimum of interpretation.
Well-executed and true to the original
author: Bruce RayI enjoyed the short sound clips on this site but was still quite surprised by the high quality of this performance. True, it's all done by one man, but John Ringer's stripped-down-to-the-bare-essentials rock combo version of this 20th century masterpiece is both well-executed and true to the original. The dynamics are faithful to what Stravinsky intended; as a testament to the artist's playing, arranging, and production skills, this CD rocks out while at the same time maintaining squeaky-clean sonics. Let's hope there's more where this came from so that Mr. Ringer can quit his scummy job and devote himself full-time to bringing more great works of art to fruition. Perhaps the next one will be an original work. At any rate, this CD is well worth the modest price they're asking for here. Buy at once!
Unique but true to the original.
author: ZvonkoI got the CD about a week ago and have listened to it daily. Congratulations on tackling such a challenging endeavour. I was surprised to hear some passages that sound a lot like Primus although it suits them well. You should send the prog-rock station AuralMoon (www.auralmoon.com) a copy since they have a lot of listeners that might be interested.
Very Entertaining Variation on the Stravinsky's Work
author: MarkThis crazy (yet somewhat necessary idea), is both well executed and highly enjoyable. If you have been a fan of this piece of music in the past, then this is a nice arrangement and a rocking performance. It also enhances certain aspects of the work that one may have overlooked before. Definately worth a listen!
Fantastico!!
author: rsteviemooreFantastico too, we got it, cherish it. Highly recommended. Found out about it on alt.music.zappa newsgroup. Wanna know more about John Ringer in Maryland. Any websites? Other recordings? Hail Igor!
As other reviewers suggested, it seems rather improbable that an electric guitar and bass can cover enough of the bases to make this workable. But this effort rather exceeded my expectations. Even the drum programming (normally the weak link in a production like this) is quite good, if a little busier than needed from time to time. Dynamics are adhered to and overall arrangement problems were thoughfully and creatively solved.
better than ....? what?
author: vincentkioHello i m a huge fan of the igor's stravinsky ,in particular the rite of spring . I bought the cd for a joke , a mascarade but i m wrong ,it's good ,very good better than ray manrarek "carmina burana" ; - ) After the classical version of Boulez,Ansermet,Munch it's good to see another version of the rite of spring and electric version!! "bravo" like i say in french ,sorry my english is bad because i m french !! congratulations
extraordinarily impressive.I didn't think it would be possible.
author: albert landaIt's a real achievment.At first the idea seemed absurd, but your arrangement has a life of its own and I was quite won over by it.It must have been extraordinarily difficult to do and I will certainly consider getting hold of the CD
Interesting and good job!
author: ST