Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Sanders Theatre Concerts Boston Symphony Orchestra Second Programme, July 25 Under the direction of Bernard Zighera Toccata, Bouree, and GigaScarlatti-Casella Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Shubert I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme, August 1 The Boston Society of Ancient...
...Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). One of Ravel's most vivid pieces brilliantly, if somewhat inelastically, performed...
...white announcements seriously. At any rate, four Boston Symphony musicians including Jean Lefrane and Alred Zighera plus a pianist, Paul Doguereau, made their appearance and very smoothly and beautifully furnished two-hours of French chamber music, which included the Faure Quintette, Opus 89, the Quartet, Opus 15, and the Ravel Trio in A Minor. To most of those present, including myself, these works were more or less unfamiliar, but from the very cordial reception which greeted each selection, it would seem as if more concerts of this type, in spite of their somewhat limited appeal, would be welcome...