Conducting The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky: so easy a child could do it. Well, maybe not exactly, but this kid is pretty darn impressive. He’s obviously spent some time listening to the piece and something in his genuine excitement tells me that it wasn’t anything forced on him by a parent. Even though we might consider The Rite of Spring “tame” by today’s contemporary music standards, it’s still a formidable and extremely complex piece of music. But to see a five year old kid having so much fun with it—even grooving to it, you might say, not to mention displaying some pretty keen conducting chops—says something about early exposure to contemporary music.
