Anniversary time
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 9:38AM
Pete

An interesting co-location of big musical anniversaries this week: 100 years after the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and the 50th birthday of Bob Dylan's Freewheelin'.

The two most important influencers of a century of western music? Discuss – but (in true Sellar and Yeatman style) candidates should on no account try to write on both sides of the paper at once..

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a strong contender for the number three slot, Miles Davis, would have had his 87th birthday this week. But that is an annoyingly, if appropriately, unround number...

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