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Thanks and on to the right of spring, part one.

Then, then the curtain opened on a group of Nokneid and Longbred Lolitas jumping up and down.

Down's this adolescent. the storm broke.

It was full of very noisy public.

I went out, I said, go to hell excuse me mr. done they came for she for she hei Zard or for Cleopatra and they saw the sucker of the

they were very shocked they were very naive and stupid Oh, The most famous thing about Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is the Riot that supposedly took place at its

premiere. Perhaps it's overcompensating for classical musicians' reputations for being a bit

stuffy, but musicians and musicologists love talking about the riot at the

right of spring, and I'm no exception. But you might be surprised to know that the

right riot was by no means the only disturbance at a classical concert in history.

In the classical era, audience members regularly shouted their opinions about the music to the performers,

with one audience member at the premiere of Beethoven's

Eroika symphony famously shouting, quote, I'll pay you if you just make it stop.

But the majority of the most reliable and fascinating disturbances have come in the 20th century.

Two months before the premiere of the Rite of Spring, an arguably much bigger riot, took place at the

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