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Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...
None of these adjectives fits a single line of Avalanche. Written as a Sateve post serial, it is spectacular melodrama, sometimes tautened into Hitchcocky thrills. Its setting: the Alps at the point where France, Switzerland, Italy meet. Its heroine: U.S.-born, French-raised Fenton Ravel, who visits Unoccupied France to find her French lover, Bastineau...
...Bakiff" is a fascinating study which perhaps belongs rightfully in the same general category as Stravinsky's, Shostakovich's and even Ravel's "modern" compositions--superimposed, or course, on a steady dance rhythm. Going further afield, the excerpts from the "Brown" section of the much-discussed "Black, Brown, and Beige" were most promising, and I'd like more than ever to hear the entire work...
Wittgenstein, for whom Maurice Ravel wrote his Concerto for Left Hand, is the world's N01 one-armed pianist. Conductor Reiter fractured his right foot a few days before the concert. While the pianist played left-anded, the conductor conducted left-footed, holding his game foot gingerly aloft...
Lecuona was among the first to introduce rumba music to the U.S. public-in 1922 at Broadway's Capitol Theatre. Later he went to Paris, where he hobnobbed with the late Maurice Ravel and continued studying the piano. Then he toured Europe, Central and South America as a concert pianist. He has since made equally wide but more informal tours with a rumba outfit called Lecuona's Cuban Boys, has also written 30 musical comedies, most of them in collaboration with Cuban Librettist Gustavo Galarraga...