Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight the orchestra will be hard in two French compositions, one German, and one American. The program includes Rahaud's La Procession Nocturne, a Symphonic Poem after Lenau: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Piston's Second Suite for Orchestra; and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Ballet Suite Number...
...first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
When Artie's boys began unraveling Ravel's Piece en Forme de Habanera, the crowd around the bandstand applauded politely, but even the most ardent jitterers had to stop dancing. Cried one in petulant exasperation: "Artie, you stink...
Others attempted more precise analysis: "It's all right to play Ravel, but not with this band and not in a place where people want to dance. Artie is O.K. when he plays the Shaw stuff that everyone likes-like Stardust. But most of the time he's too kittenish, too much cat." Said another: "His orchestrations are awful, he's imitating too many other bands." Actually, Artie had been using a good many of his original ten-year-old dance orchestrations...
First they heard Beethoven's noble and powerful "Archduke" trio-a perfectionist's performance, marred only slightly by an accidentally turned microphone and the nearby snort of commuter trains. By week's end, when the three had got through their program of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Ravel (in trios, duos and solos), they had Chicago in the palms of their hands...