What did Stravinsky think of rock and roll?

This is a very hard question to answer, however, Stavinsky really liked complex, technically complex music. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The rhythmic innovations of Stravinsky, reflect his love for the fascinating rhythms coming from American Jazz, Blues and the music of James Brown. read more

Mr Rock & Roll American guitarist, singer, and songwriter Chuck Berry was born on 18th Oct 1926. Berry was one of the pioneers of rock and roll music, he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and his own brand of showmanship that became a major influence on subsequent rock music. read more

Stravinsky, Igor Igor Stravinsky, 1968. Horst Tappe/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The percussive violence and barbaric tone colours of The Rite of Spring did, however, conceal a new kind of rhythmic sensibility and an empirical attitude to sonority that can be traced through all of Stravinsky’s later music, whatever its apparent stylistic allegiance. read more