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World Service,28 May 2010,10 mins

Rite of Spring

Witness History

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When Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky created the ballet The Rite of Spring, they knew it would shock. But did they know it would cause a riot on its first night in Paris? Witness takes you back to 1913 with the help of the BBC's archives.

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