Google is celebrating Stravinsky’s birthday today with the following logo:
I was able to guess the occasion from the image–the firebird gave it away–but is a caterpillar and a bunch of daisies really what leaps to mind when you hear The Rite of Spring? Come one people: it’s a ballet about ritual human sacrifice. Google, if you’re listening, my advice for next year is to keep the firebird motif, but make it darker and scarier. Ditch the cutesy stuff unless you can find a way to depict Pulchinella or something.
I highly recommend Stravinsky’s Poetics of Music, available for free download here.
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