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May whoever listens to this music never experience the insult to which it was subjected and of which I was the witness in the Theâtre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, Spring 1913', wrote Stravinsky in 1968, of the premiere of his Rite of Spring. Album Tracks 1. Introduction 2. The Augurs of Spring/Dances of the Young Girls 3. Ritual of Abduction 4. Spring Rounds 5. Ritual of the Rival Tribes 6. Dance of the Earth 7. Introduction 8. Mystic Circles of the Young Girls 9. Glorification of the Chosen One 10. Evocation of the Ancestors 11. Ritual Action of the Ancestors 12. Sacrificial Dance 13. Introduction 14. Fisherman 15. Nightingale's Aria 16. Chamberlain, Bonze, Cook, Courtiers 17. Second Entrance of the Nightingale 18. Chamberlain and Bonze 19. Nightingale's Second Aria 20. Chamberlain and Bonze 21. Fisherman 22. Prelude Chorus and Orchestra 23. Cook 24. Reprise of the Prelude 25. Chinese March 26. Chamberlain 27. Song of the Nightingale 28. The Japanese Envoys 29. The Mechanical Nightingale 30. The Emperor, Chamberlain, Courtiers 31. Reprise of the Chinese March 32. Fisherman 33. Prelude 34. Chorus of Ghosts, Emperor 35. Nightingale 36. Death and the Nightingale 37. The Nightingale's Aria 38. Emperor and Nightingale 39. Funeral Procession 40. Fisherman