I have been studying Stravinsky's Rite of Spring within a cultural context and found this to be one of the most enlightening sources so far! It was fascinating, and I will have to listen to it again just for how well put together and enjoyable it was, thank you so much.

Wonderful! Heading over to listen to the full hour version now!

As a sort of jump to the left in relation to the topics covered in this show, I'd like to mention a 1913 project I happened upon in historical newspapers and am researching further right now.

At the same time culture was beginning its change of direction, there was a project being undertaken by the Modern Historic Records Association that was supposed to create long-lasting documentation of recent history using methods less ephemeral than those normally in practice.

This included asking the Association membership (with many famous people of the day) to write messages to their descendants to be opened 100 years hence. (Right about.... NOW!) Two copies were made and placed in indestructible boxes - with one to be presented to the New York Public Library, and the other to be buried in the Cheops Pyramid.

Whether either occurred in full is unknown, but I'm working on it! There was definitely some presentation to the NYPL - see a bit more info in my blog post here:

http://currach.johnjtierney.com/2013/01/messages-for-posterity/

It seems that while Modernism was coming into being in 1913, there was also at least a short push to hold onto the past with some feeling that it was slipping away. I'm hoping to find that these messages still exist, at least in the NYPL.

The program briefly goes over some of the new technology that led to the newness in art, but I find it very strange that quantum mechanics and relativity is not mentioned at all! A goodbye to causality and absolute truth is freshly shocking even today, as it was at the time

Thanks for the 1913 show. I love that time in the art world and the other worlds you showed kicking off in that time. I turned the radio on a few minutes after it started and was stunned to hear something so well done on that time. Listened without doing anything else until it was done. Wow.

First time I have ever commented on this show. I gasped when the episode was over; this was ike listening to an intellectual soap opera. I'm actually going play this again. Damn stunning. Thank you Kurt. Thank you Ms. Fishko. Shock indeed!

"We are still in Modernism" -Robert Irwin, Rice University 2000

I took a most memorable course in about 1968 from Yosel Rogat titled "Modernisms" which covered about the same ground: Duchamps, Stravinsky, Picasso, Wittgenstein, Paul Valery. It was an eye opener for me at the time. This program was a great reminiscence. Thanks so much.

Salute! The best in years. Thank you.

"Culture shock 1913" is fantastic. I have recently been studying Modernism and this has been a great compliment to what I have learned. On the same topic, I highly recommend Will Gompertz's new book "What Are You Looking At?"

This documentary was fascinating. I was unfamiliar with the aspects of the Classical Music Riots of this time period, but I have been mulling over some of the same ideas about a similarity between our current era and the birth of modernism. I was excited to find that other thinkers were making similar socio-historical connections. The program gave me a lot to think about and my friend and I new have lots of fun things to research and write about. Thanks for the great entertainment.

This is an excellent documentary! The details, insight, and historical context bring the period to life.

I have just listened to your program Culture Shock 1913. I was blown away.
It is absolutely outstanding. Thank you.