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Article: New CD set recalls the importance of conductor Pierre Monteux
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1994
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The premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" was the night the
history of music changed -- May 29, 1913. On the podium that riotous
night in the Theatre de Champs-Elysees in Paris was a 38-year-old
former violist named Pierre Monteux. Monteux was just beginning to
make his name as a conductor; the impresario Serge Diaghilev
predicted that the score would revolutionize music and make Monteux
famous, and so it did. Fifty years later Monteux was still
conducting, and he led an anniversary performance of the "Rite" in
London.
During his long and distinguished career Monteux recorded the work
four times. The best of his recordings was made with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra in 1951, and it now ...