Stravinsky’s Les Noces
A coffin on a gondola, a ballet dancer with no pants on, an anti-patriarchy show, a royal scandal and a Russian peasant wedding ceremony - this and more, as well as tons of great music in our longest episode so far. And here is a list of the people mentioned in the episode: Adam, Adolphe Beecham, Thomas Bonynge, Richard Boulez, Pierre Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich Currentzis, Teodor Debussy, Claude Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich de Falla, Manuel Fokine, Michel (Mikhail Mikhailovich) Gergiev, Valery Abisalovich Gershwin, Ira Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna Jurowski, Vladimir Mikhailovich Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Nijinsky, Vatslav Fomich Nijinskaya, Bronislava Fominichna Nikisch, Arthur Ozawa, Seiji Pavlova, Anna Pavlovna Poulenc, Francis Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich Ravel, Maurice Reiner, Fritz Respighi, Ottorino Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich Rubinstein, Ida Lvovna Satie, Erik Strauss, Richard Stravinsky, Igor Fydorovich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tcherepnin, Nikolai Nikolayevich Weil, Kurt