Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last works mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet." When works of unquestionable fibre have been given, they have often been thrown, together indiscriminately, as witnessed by another program which boasted of nothing but modern French music by Milhaud, Debussy and Ravel, enough to tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there has not been a single note of Bach or Handel heard in Symphony Hall. Although there seemed to be time enough for two by Shostakovitch and one by Miaskovsky, there was not a single Haydn...
Directly following this, Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloc" Ballet was heard. The music, full of "poetic imagination," instrumental color, exceedingly clever orchestration, was competently enough performed. But perhaps it was not up to the rest of the program in some ways. The dynamics were good, but at times overdone. The effect was complete, but at the same time there were too many breaks, the continuity not always intact...
Directed by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the combined orchestra played several selections between the choralists' appearances. On the orchestras' program were Overture in C Major by Bach, the Minuet from Ravel's Sonatine, and Men-delssohn's Overture to Fingal's Cave...
...orchestra itself, immensely improved by a Radcliffe invasion of the string section, will play a Bach suite in C major, a Minuet by Ravel, and last but not least, the brilliant "Fingal's Cave Overture" by Mendelssohn. From what I heard in Sandors last night, the new faces in this year's composite orchestra will make up, visually and aurally, for the loss...
...violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...