A lot of things get better with age -- baseball gloves, selvedge denim, beards, Ryan Gosling -- and our deep appreciation of Stravinsky's groundbreakingly-epic The Rite of Spring, the gateway symphony drug of the kool kidz.
Today, the cranky Russian genius of modernism celebrates the 100th anniversary premiere of his game-changing work that coined the awesome phrase "classical riot" and proves that Spring isn't about the weather but rather, a state of mind, this one unflinchingly modern and progressive.