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...gentle snow began to fall outside, Clark was wheeled into a specially equipped surgical suite. Already assembled was a 17-member team with Jarvik as an observer. Working quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from the breastbone to the abdomen and carefully completed the delicate task of connecting Clark to a heart-lung bypass machine that would pump and oxygenate his blood until the plastic heart was in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Living on Borrowed Time | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heart Is Back in the Game | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...ballet recalls Robbins' Interplay (1945) in its brash colloquialism, and In G Major (1975) in its formal structure. (And why not? Gershwin's concerto was one of the models for Ravel's Concerto in G, on which the ballet In G Major is set.) But if the Gershwin concerto is not a pro found work, it is still joyous jazz-age jeu d 'esprit that transcends its source - bringing honor to both George Gershwin and Jerome Robbins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Jazzing It Up at the Ballet | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...above quoting a famous melody (like My Country, 'Tis of Thee) when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger; the opening chords of the Louisiana Story suite might have been harmonized by Ravel. But whatever the style, the music is always unmistakably Thomson's: attractively urbane, piquant, eminently civilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Red, White and Blue Boulevardier | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Violin and Piano Duo--Leslie Silverfire and Phillip Oliver; music of Brahms, Mozart, Bach and Ravel; Leverett...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, CRIMSON | Title: Nov. 19 -25 | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

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