Tom Cimarusti
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Musical Riots:
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 10am
John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center
Tom Cimarusti, Ph.D., Program Coordinator and Professor of Music History, Florida Gulf Coast University
Before Woodstock ’99, the Riverport Riot, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival and the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, there was the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring — one of the most notorious riots in the history of music. In this discussion, you’ll learn about what led to the riot and, in a video recording, you’ll hear Stravinsky explain his reaction to it.
A Musical Einstein:
J.S. Bach and the Art of Counterpoint
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 10am
John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center
Tom Cimarusti, Ph.D., Program Coordinator and Professor of Music History, Florida Gulf Coast University
What is the intellectually demanding compositional process called counterpoint? In this edition of Composer Conversations, we look at J.S. Bach’s musical style and how his and other polyphonic works dominated much of the Baroque period.
Top image: Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592-1656). The Concert, 1624. Oil on canvas, 48 5/8 x 80 11/16 in. National Gallery of Art. Patrons' Permanent Fund and Florida Carr Fund, 2013.38.1. Second image: Bain News Service. Stravinsky, c. 1925. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress. Third image: Composite image of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). U.S. Public Domain.