Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Otello" 8:30 "From Wall-Flower to Conga King"; six lessons from Madame in Dixon 8:45 "No Intervention for Now"; a talk by Professor William E. Hocking 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 An original play by the Radio Workshop 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Ravel--I a Sibelius--2nd Symphony 10:45 Crimson News
...elegant, last-minute, Gallic primping: a summer at Fontainebleau near Paris. Dr. Walter Damrosch started the idea, after running a wartime school in which U. S. bandmasters took a high French polish. The late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns helped found, and the late Composer Maurice Ravel long figure-headed, Fontainebleau's American Conservatory, for which the French Government made available the Louis XV wing of the old royal palace. As many as 180 students worked with France's greatest music teachers there each summer...
...Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Laura Newell, harpist, John Wummer, flautist, Ralph McLane, clarinetist, the Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: three sides). Elegant French fancy work, in its best needling to date. The harp and strings have been working the other side of the street, as the New Friends of Rhythm...
Kostalonetz has always been one of my idols and I hoped that his first records in a long while (of "Selections from Porgy and Best," "Claire De Lune," and "Pavane" by Ravel) would he up to the standard he has set on his radio program. Kosty has always had the most brilliant of the big "symphonic" Jazz bands and usually makes Mr. Whiteman look sick...
...dotted a Europe that was emerging from its coldest winter in a hundred years. As Sumner Welles & party arrived in Rome, the almond trees were blossoming; people were singing a new song, Wind, wind, take me away with you; crowds were flocking to see Three Smart Girls, to hear Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole...