Why did Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre de printemps (The Rite of Spring) earn boos and hisses from the opening-night Parisian audience?
a. Stravinsky was Russian.
b. The dancers were nude.
c. The play was violent.
d. The radical music was jarring.
Answer: d
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