Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program comprises Haendel's Concerto Grosso for Strings, Ravel's orchestration of a Dance by Debussy, de Falla's Suite and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Maurice Ravel, Frenchman of devilish cleverness and satanic fertility, is busy putting the delights and horrors of Monte Carlo into operatic form. His libretto was written by Mme. Colette, who had laid its scene on the Côte d'Azur...
...least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen, delightful mendacity of Frang Lalor, and the grotesque terror of Grant Mitchell. And repetition seems to rob the situations of none of their humor...
...same evening in Jordan Hall the Cecilia Society will sing choral numbers from Ravel, Borodin, Griog and Bantock, Mr. Smalley, the cellist, will assist...
Friday, December 28, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of the most interesting concerts of its, season to date. The program included Bliss's Color Symphony, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and a Boccherini 'Cello Concerto played by Mr. Casals, played with great refinement and breadth of bowing, and warm fulness of tone, tho' with none too accurate intonation, at times. Bliss's Symphony is not propaganda music, but it might well be. Through three movements, "Purple," "Blue," "Red," it is highly impressionistic. In the last, Mr. Bliss throws down the gauntlet to the theorists and with a magnificent fugue...