Riot at the Rite (2005 TV Movie)
Christian McKay: Pierre Monteux
Quotes
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Igor Stravinsky : [during a rehearsal with the orchestra, the musicians become uncomfortable with the stamping rhythms of Stravinsky's score, mess up and burst out laughing] What's so funny? Huh? Huh? That is *precisely* what I wrote!
[marches over to the piano and pounds out the discordant stamping; everyone stares at Igor as if he's mad]
Igor Stravinsky : You understand? Huh? *I* write, you PLAY!
Pierre Monteux : [trying to diffuse the tension] Gentlemen, if we might pick it up from the bar before 104?
[orchestra resumes rehearsing]
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Sergei Diaghilev : It's years ahead of its time!
Pierre Monteux : Then why are we doing it now?