The Magical Music Box Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel 22. On Thin Ice - Borodin's Polovtsian Dances 23. Fire-Bringers - Beethoven's Symphony No 5 24. The Captain's Curse - Nocturnes by Debussy 25. Eve of Battle - Solo Piano Pieces by Chopin 26. Black Angus - Overtures by Mendelssohn 27. The Imperial Robes - A Little Night Music by Mozart 28. Space Envoys - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 29. Boomerang! - Symphonies Nos 5 and 6 by Mahler 30. Bird of Fire - Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite 31. Lost and Found - Robert Schumann's "Spring" Symphony 32. Pyramid of Khonsoul -
The Rite of Spring murder and gangster film images. In February 1984 Martha Graham, in her 90th year, resumed her association with "The Rite" by choreographing a new production at New York's State Theater. "The New York Times" critic declared the performance "a triumph ... totally elemental, as primal in expression of basic emotion as any tribal ceremony, as hauntingly staged in its deliberate bleakness as it is rich in implication". On 30 September 1987, the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles performed "The Rite" based on a reconstruction of Nijinsky's 1913 choreography, until then thought lost beyond recall. The performance resulted from years of