Rehearsing Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring @ThePhiladelphiaOrchestra

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

It has been suggested that Stravinsky incorporated morse code into some of his music—hidden in rhythmic patterns in works like The Rite of Spring. Though The Rite of Spring predates John Williams's score to Star Wars: A New Hope and our favorite droid R2D2, you can't help but find inspiration in that iconic sound.

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