Stravinskian

Many of them, in fact, didn’t bother staying for the Stravinskian “dessert.”

It’s about the texture of the harmonies, the rhythms, the quotations, the Stravinskian drive, the klezmer and Jewish melodic style.

An instrumental sextet — violin, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, prominent accordion and piano — sound just right, be it one minute Mexican, the next Stravinskian.

It was startling to find how often the difficult meters of Stravinsky’s famous score were honored in the movement and how powerfully the Paris dancers revealed Stravinskian force.

After Stravinsky’s death in 1971, at 88, he was a writer, lecturer, conductor, public intellectual and keeper of the Stravinskian flame.