The Rite of Spring first concert performance (the music without the ballet), in St Petersburg under Serge Koussevitzky. On 5 April that year, Stravinsky experienced for himself the popular success of "The Rite" as a concert work, at the Casino de Paris. After the performance, again under Monteux, the composer was carried in triumph from the hall on the shoulders of his admirers. "The Rite" had its first British concert performance on 7 June 1921, at the Queen's Hall in London under Eugene Goossens. Its American premiere occurred on 3 March 1922, when Stokowski included it in a Philadelphia Orchestra programme. Goossens was also
The Key to the Golden Firebird in with its quietly complex story." "This story is told in the third person, more and more unusual in YA novels, but the despair of May and her sisters is clear, even if not related in the confessional first-person narrative", Kiatt said. "Kirkus Reviews" complemented Johnson on her "literate, sophisticated style". "Kirkus Reviews" also mentioned that "her expert character development taps into the real emotions of three fully realized adolescents". The Key to the Golden Firebird The Key to the Golden Firebird is the debut novel by noted young adult author Maureen Johnson. It was first published in 2004, and