Tuesday Rhapsody: The 'right' of spring

If other people don't like what you've got, they're wrong.

A few days ago, while reading an article by the late William Zinsser, I learned about the riot that took place at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées in Paris on May 29, 1913.

The reason for it was the debut of Stravinsky’s piece “The rite of spring”. The audience, still used to the comfort of late 19th century Romanticism, was shocked by the dissonant harmoni…