March 20.

Delius’ “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” is all well and good, but in this month notorious for its whiplash caprice, Leonard Bernstein conducting Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps” is perhaps a better, if not safer, bet.

Then again, from that photo, perhaps the cuckoo is not to be undersold…

Here’s Bernstein, captured in his prime, conducting Stravinsky’s primal masterpiece without a score.

Happy spring?

Perhaps you prefer to decompress with Delius’ romanticized cuckoo.

Both works were first performed in 1913!

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