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...Maurice Ravel, who died early in 1938, was best known to Americans for his composition (1 Rhapsody in Blue, 2 Firefly, 3 By the Waters of Minnetunka, 4 Bolero, 5 Valencia...
Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic- Symphony concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was called Bolero. Performed previously in Paris, it was not considered one of its composer's masterpieces, and Maestro Toscanini had programmed it inconspicuously as an hors d'oeuvre to solider stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands...
Last week, while erstwhile Bolero fans occupied themselves with other fads & fancies, the music world mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three...
...with blurred combinations of color, got nebulous and exotic effects from his orchestra. He was an eclectic, often deliberately imitated the idioms of exotic or historic peoples, dishing them up in his own particular French sauce. Thus his opera L'Heure Espagnole and his descriptive orchestral works Bolero, Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement in Ma Mere I'Oye reflects Oriental idioms; a violin sonata is based on American "blues." Though a brilliant orchestrator...
...Entrance of the Guests into theWartburg" from "Tannhauser" Wagner *"The Royal Fireworks," Suite Handel *"Dance Macabre," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *"Slavonic Dance No. 6 in A-flat major Dvorak *"Bolero" Ravel SARITA Spanish Dancer Bulerias F. Moscoso Farruca R. Romero Sanjuanito R. Romero Granada A. Ross "Cracked Ice," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart (Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe) The Composer at the piano *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *"Wintergreen for President," from "Of Thee I Sing" Gershwin (Regular prices for balconies) *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...