Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where Queen Elizabeth was just making her own arrival. But an hour later, when Ormandy had brought Brahms's Symphony No. i to a resounding end, the applause came heavy and this time it was all for Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, the white ties in the three-guinea stalls shouted bravos, while the galleries stomped and whistled. Ormandy beamed & bowed ten times, finally ended shouts of "Encore" by launching into God Save the King.* Then the musicians dashed off to a party at the U.S. embassy...
...program includes Vivaldi's Sonata in D Major, the Sonata in D Minor by Brahms, and works by Block, Lalo, Ravel, and Veracini...
...Second Woodwind Quintet will play works of Haydn, Hindemith, Milhaud, and Ravel in a free concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Kirkland House...
...Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev. Beating time with the warmth and expression of a railroad semaphore, he did his best, but the music floated drearily out into the happy din in a dull monochrome of sound...
Porgy & Bess. After hearing New Yorker Samuel Barber's Stravinskyesque Capricorn Concerto, American week finally got around to its triumph. Maurice Ravel had once told George Gershwin, "Don't you ever try to imitate the Europeans . . . It's better to write good Gershwin than bad Ravel." And after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier...