The Rite of Spring the four-part piano score published in 1913. There have been numerous variants of the English translations; those shown are from the 1967 edition of the score. Lawrence Morton, in a study of the origins of "The Rite", records that in 1907–08 Stravinsky set to music two poems from Sergey Gorodetsky's collection "Yar". Another poem in the anthology, which Stravinsky did not set but is likely to have read, is "Yarila" which, Morton observes, contains many of the basic elements from which "The Rite of Spring" developed, including pagan rites, sage elders, and the propitiatory sacrifice of a young maiden: "The
The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album) Wynton's, with a few notable exceptions. The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album) The Rite of Spring is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring jazz interpretations of classical music compositions. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 2½ stars stating "Long before Wynton decided he could play classical chops as well as the real long-haired interpreters, even though he was a jazz musician, Hubert Laws and his partners at CTI gave it a run with a jazz twist, and for the most part with a far more adventurous repertoire. Unfortunately, the results