Spring Songs

Studio 360

Birds are twittering, bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming. Kurt Andersen waxes pastoral about the music of spring, from “Peer Gynt” to Stravinsky’s furious “Rite of Spring” to the teenage migration at Daytona Beach.

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