Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony in a program of Prokofiev, Sibelius, Ravel and Strauss...
Diaghilev's "Ballet Russe" took Europe's breath away; and kept it breathless for a generation. The Ballet's heyday was a succession of champagne parties, command performances and brilliant triumphs; all the first-rate artists of the day were caught up in it: composers like Ravel, Richard Strauss and DeFalla; artists like Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Rouault; dancers like Nijinsky and Karsavina; choreographers like Fokine, Massine and Balanchine...
...Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, pianist-conductor, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London; Victor, 5 sides). Ravel was feeling the hot breath of Gershwin on his neck when he wrote this one in 1932; Bernstein gives it dewy-eyed, loving treatment. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe '50 as the soloist; Dvor ak's sixth "Slavonic Dance;" Debussy's "Sacred Dance" for harp and strings with Phyllis Botner, Radcliffe '50 as soloist; and an excerpt from Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite...