Riot at the Rite (2005 TV Movie)

Aidan McArdle: Igor Stravinsky

Quotes 

• 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] 

• 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?