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Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's the boring one where all the dinosaurs die and who wants to watch dinosaurs die? So we found this instead, Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" featuring the dancing hippos. What says spring more than dancing hippos? Besides, who doesn't love dancing hippos? And alligators.
A Day After the First Day of Spring
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Tchaikovsky's "Rites of Spring?" Haven't heard it.
You Goofed! The first day of Spring this year ocurred at March 20, 2007 at 8:07 p.m. EDT. It isn't a calendar event (i.e., it isn't always the 21st) but a celestial one (the point at which the sun is exactly perpindicular to the earth's axis of rotation (or parallel to the earth's plane of rotation.)