By Michael Roddy PARIS (Reuters) - Russian conductor Valery Gergiev wants to evoke danger, but not too much, on Wednesday when he leads back-to-back ballets of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" at the Paris theatre where it caused one of music's biggest scandals 100 years ago. "Danger, well, of course, danger," he said at the dress rehearsal on Tuesday night when asked what he wants people to feel from his conducting of Stravinsky's groundbreaking work, with its fast-changing rhythms and blaring dissonance. ...
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