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...suburban Cerritos College, the orchestra invited the audience to pick the second half of the program from 23 classics. Among them were the Mahler First Symphony and Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth. Even though the audience was composed largely of supposedly hip students, the winners were Ravel's hoary Boléro and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture...
...work of Columbia Producers Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Shepard, Everything is actually something less than that, a Franco-Spanish program including Chabrier's España, Ravel's Bolero, a mini-suite from Bizet's Carmen and the Malagueña of Ernesto Lecuona (only Latin in the group). Infinitely superior in sound quality and Moog mastery to the same company's alltime classical bestseller Switched-On Bach, Everything is not to be confused with the originals, nor is it to be condemned for its license. Harmless fun and easy to take, it asks the question...
...soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous of Maurice Delage. Writtenon the composer's Indian trip, this latter piece combines the best of Ravi Shanof Ravel, who was Delage's teacher...
...right, I could kind of get out of myself and into something mysterious and wondrous and exciting." Fleisher is still hoping to achieve such moments at the keyboard again. With great determination, he has plunged into the tiny but exciting piano repertory written for the left hand alone by Ravel, Prokofiev and Britten. Mastering the vast orchestral literature necessary for a conducting career will be a tougher job. But if anyone has the musical dedication and the talent to succeed, it is Leon Fleisher...
...know Ravel's Bolero. It is difficult to get it wrong. The Pops did. Not in tempo, or interpretation, but the actual score itself. Players kept missing notes, First the French horns came in wrong, then the English horn massacred an arpeggio, and soon the entire performance was beyond redemption...