Yarillo spring festival

[Mary Delle LeBeau]

Dear Marilyn,

Sounds very interesting!!  How do I go about getting a copy of your
dissertation.

Yours,

Mary Delle

On 27 Sep 2001, at 18:05, hoogen wrote:

> Dear Mary Delle,
>     There has been a good deal written about the folk sources for
> Stravinsky's music for the rite, and considerable speculation about the
> folkloric sources for the libretto as well.
>     However, I suggest you take a look at my dissertation, _Igor Stravinsky,
> Nikolai Roerich and the Healing Power of Paganism.  The Rite of Spring as
> ecstatic Ritual of Renewal for the Twentieth Century_ (University of
> Washington, 1997).  In this work I explore the cultural context in which
> Roerich and Stravinsky worked.  I believe that Roerich had a more
> influential role in the project than is generally acknowledged.  I also
> believe that Stravinsky was more of a willing participant in this recreation
> of an ecstatic ritual than he acknowledged in later years.  During the early
> twentieth century the Russian creative intelligentsia saw art as a way to
> reconcile the material and spiritual worlds--a union that had been
> fragmented by rational philosophy and empirical science.  In this cultural
> context, The Rite of Spring can be seen as a mysterium for the twentieth
> century:  it is a grand synthesis of music, design, and dance as an
> enactment of a sacred mystery that will reveal to the participants the
> nature of the human spirit and its relation to both the earthly and higher
> spiritual worlds.  Identifying folk sources, therefore, gives only part of
> the larger picture.
> Marilyn Hoogen, Ph.D.
>
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