Craig Wright closes his Yale course Listening to Music with a lecture on musical Modernism, built around Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. He breaks down the score's rhythmic irregularities and dissonances to explain, in musical rather than anecdotal terms, why the 1913 Paris premiere ended in a riot. The lecture then turns to one of Wright's own favorites, Mahler's orchestral song Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, walking through its harmonic and orchestral qualities in detail. Wright closes the course, and this final formal lecture, with a personal case for why classical music matters and should be preserved. Chapters move from Stravinsky's ballet scores through the construction of the Rite's dissonance to the Mahler analysis and a concluding statement on the value of the tradition. Recorded in Fall 2008 as part of Yale's Listening to Music (MUSI 112).