Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
Before the whole shaking structure fell to pieces, there was a taste of bravery for some of these men. Captain Count Ravel forced enemy units five times superior in numbers to retire two kilometers; Habe's division-the Thirty-fifth-held a deep wedge of the victorious German army of Sedan motionless until the final collapse of France-although it was only half-fed, undefended from the air, tortured with noise and silence...
Larry Adler buys standard $4.50 harmonicas by the hundreds, blows their brass "reeds" out of tune in no time. He broke a tooth in tootling Maurice Ravel's Bolero for a Columbia record which became a best seller in Europe and the U.S. Composer Ravel, who objected violently to the way some conductors (notably Maestro Toscanini) played his piece, took Larry Adler's drastic treatment of it meekly, asked him simply: "Why don't you play...
...Leopold Mozart that "Before God and as I am honest man, your son is the greatest composer I have ever known, personally or by name." And Haydn was right. The Budapest Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find in these waltzes the fruity charm of Chopin's waltzes, or the lilt of Johann Strauss, but rather an astringent wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde...