Why Did The Rite Of Spring Inspire Only One Riot?

“Where was the next riot? Trumpeted by the media, The Rite Of Spring should have incited copycat brawls in dozens of theatres, howls of urban outrage, hyperactive manifestos. And nothing happened. Aside from two disturbances in Vienna at the outbreak of Arnold Schoenberg’s atonalities … the public sat back in their seats and let radical novelties wash over their nodding heads.”