Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...