When Mobtown Modern Music Series curator Brian Sacawa invited Darryl Brenzel to adapt Igor Stravinsky's radical orchestral ballet "The Rite of Spring" for a modern 17-piece jazz big band, no one really knew what was going to happen. There were, after all, riots at the piece's 1913 Paris premiere. Fortunately, when Brenzel's creation was unveiled at Baltimore's Metro Gallery on May 12, 2010, the audience kept to their seats in rapt attention, consumed by a work as boldly unconventional as Stravinsky's original.

Tracklist:

Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Introduction -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: The Augurs Of Spring - Dances Of T
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of Abduction -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Spring Rounds -
Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of The River Tribes -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Procession Of The Sage -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: The Sage -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part I: Adoration Of The Earth: Dance Of The Earth
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Introduction -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Glorification Of The Chosen One -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Evocation Of The Ancestors -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Ritual Action Of The Ancestors -
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) (Arr. D. Brenzel): Part II: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance

UPC: 726708682422
Label: Innova Records
Release Date: 7.31.12
Format: CD

Mobtown Moderb Big Band - The Re-(W)Rite Of Spring (CD)