Intrigued by what Google's Image of the day on June 17, 2009 (below) stood for I hovered over it and found out it celebrated the birthday of one of my favorite Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Is it part of the rites of spring?
Tom Service in Google Does Stravinsky (The Guardian, June 17) writes that it "has inspired Google to
create an effete, sub-Chagall image to surround their lettering. The
iconography is a little strange: there's a firebird, a few floating
note-heads, some not-very-pagan-looking flowers (a subtle homage to Les Noces?)
and a caterpillar – I don't actually know of any Stravinsky pieces
about caterpillars, but I suppose that's just a bit of Google-ised
artistic license. Still, given how many people are going to see this today, it's a big event for 20th-century music and its reception."
That's Igor above in case you wondered.
Music to my ears…