WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE

461.

R.C. What do you love most in Russia?

I.S. The violent Russian spring that seemed to begin in an hour and was like the whole earth cracking.

Igor Stravinsky, Memories and Commentaries, London, 1960, p. 30.

PLACE: Russia

TIME: Spring

CIRCUMSTANCE: The cracking of the spring ice.

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