i am not sure it's a good beginner piece... the music was playing second fiddle to the animation. > Many found fault with Stokowski's rearrangements and abridg

i am not sure it's a good beginner piece... the music was playing second fiddle to the animation. > Many found fault with Stokowski's rearrangements and abridgements of the music. Igor Stravinsky, the only living composer whose music was featured in the film, expressed displeasure at how in Stokowski's arrangement of The Rite of Spring, "the order of the pieces had been shuffled, and the most difficult of them eliminated", and criticized the orchestra's performance, observing that the simplification of the score "did not save the musical performance, which was execrable"