Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Symphony of Brahms in D major will be feature number of the program, Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major" will open the evening, and among the other numbers listed are the Prelude to Wagner's Lohengrin", and "La Valse", the choreographic poem by Ravel, famous French composer...
...addition to these two composers, Ravel's choregraphic poem "La Valse", and Cesar Franck's Symphony in D minor, will also be played...
People who lack music often complain that music lacks humor. Such people never grasp witty music, the intentioned epigrams of Ravel and Scriabine, of that deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through...
...No.2. Beethoven Adagio Allegretto Presto Mr. Bauer 3. Hark All Ve Lovely Saints Weelkes Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line Ravel Scherzo in B flat minor Chopin Mr. Bauer 5. Soterade Boredine Zut! Zut! Zut! Flgar Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Waguer The Harvard Glee Club
...Paris, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, new opera by Maurice Ravel, had its first performance at the Opera Comique. Critics were doubtful. There were strange harmonies, strange instruments?a rattle, a xylophone, a whip, a nutmeg-grater, a slide flute, a lutheal.? For the first time the Opera Comique orchestra played a fox-trot?for the dance of the Teapot and the Chinese Teacup...