Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians. Having arrived from Poland, England, France and Italy, four distinguished musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
Boston had the honor last week of being first to entertain Maurice Ravel, French composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program...
...Maurice Ravel heads the list of contemporary French composers. He was born in a mountain village near the Spanish border, went early to Paris, where the music of the Parisians took possession of his soul. The War also took him and made him a truck-driver...
...whole CRIMSON is daily displaying its ignorance of the college activities whose reporting is its only justification. When M. Ravel arrived for a two day stay with us, the news went on the front page. Well and good! But on that same day one of the world's leading physicists, Professor Franck of Gottingen, arrived for a four day stay during which time he delivered a series of three excellent lectures, and the CRIMSON doesn't know it yet! Wake up, old fossil, and become aware of the world about you, or else sink further into narrowness and ignorance...
...program for tonight follows: "Le Tombeau de Couperin," suite for orchestra Ravel Sarabande and Dance Orchestrated by Ravel Debussy Rapsodi Espagnole Ravel "Scheherazade," three poems for voice and orchestra, to the verses of Tristan Klingsor: Ravel I. "Asia" II. "The Enchanted Flute" III. "The Indifferent One" "La Valse," a choreographic poem Ravel...