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

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.

1. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Introduction 2. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Dances of the Young Girls 3. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Ritual of Abduction 4. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Spring Rounds 5. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Ritual of the Rival Tribes 6. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Procession of the Sage 7. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. the Sage 8. Part One. Adoration of the Earth. Dance of the Earth 9. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Introduction 10. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Mystic Circle of the Young Girls 11. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Glorification of the Chosen One 12. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Evocation of the Ancestors 13. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Ritual Action of the Ancestors 14. Part Two. the Sacrifice. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)