Duration: 6.24
A key work of The Rest is Noise festival at London’s Southbank in 2013 is Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph, at the festival to speak about the fascination of jazz and black music for composers such as Stravinsky, talks to Imogen Tilden about the Russian composer’s visionary classical work