Riot at the Rite (2005 TV Movie)
Aidan McArdle: Igor Stravinsky
Quotes
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Igor Stravinsky : [during a rehearsal with the orchestra, the musicians become uncomfortable with the stamping rhythms of Stravinsky's score, mess up and burst out laughing] What's so funny? Huh? Huh? That is *precisely* what I wrote!
[marches over to the piano and pounds out the discordant stamping; everyone stares at Igor as if he's mad]
Igor Stravinsky : You understand? Huh? *I* write, you PLAY!
Pierre Monteux : [trying to diffuse the tension] Gentlemen, if we might pick it up from the bar before 104?
[orchestra resumes rehearsing]
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Sergei Diaghilev : [Diaghilev has just listened to Stravinsky pounding the entire score out on a piano] Don't you think, my dear, there's just a little too much noise?
Igor Stravinsky : Where, exactly?
Sergei Diaghilev : Ah well, perhaps from start to finish?