Word: couperin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born in 1875 in a Pyrenees town...
...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 and a resourceful stylist, he was not a great originator...
...follows: 1. Fantasia in C minor J. S. Bach The Bells W. Byrd Fuge aus dem Magniflcat J.J. Pachelbel "Harmonious Blacksmith" Variations Handel 2. Chromatische Fantasle und Fuge J. S. Bach 3. "The Battle between David and Goliath" J. Kuhnau 4. Italian Concerto J. S. Bach 5. Les Vendangeuses Couperin La Bandoline Couperin La Poule Rameau Le Rappel des Oiseaux Rameau 6. Drei Sonaten Domenico Scarlatti
...Gathedrale Englantine Debussy Four Waltzes Brahms Wentworth J. Tellington Medley of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Song of Flame", and "Vagabond King" Frederick C. Minckler, Jr. and Charles W. French, Jr. Miscellaneous Jazz Leonard Bernstein Selections from "Rhapsody in Blue" Gershwin Bernard Siegel Little Hammers Couperin Rhapsody in G. Minor Brahms Leonard Bernstein Nocturne in F Minor Chopin Malaguena Lecuona
...orchestra will open the concert with Ravel's suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin," to be followed by Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D Miner, the four movements of which will be played through without a pause. After the intermission the program will be concluded by the famous Fifth Symphony of Beethoven. Admission will...