Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koussevitsky has chosen a varied program, including both modern and classic works. Mozart's perennial favorite, the Serenade for Strings, Dine Kleine Nachtmusik, will be played, along with representative selections from three modern composers, Piston, Prokofieff, and Ravel...
...addition to the Mozart opus, Walter Piston's Symphony No. 3, Prokofiefi's Seythian Suite, Ala and Lolli, and Maurice Ravel's impressionistic Daphnis et Chloe Suite will be delivered before what is expected to be a sellout audience...
...young Swiss esthete among Paris' musical Young Turks, he had conducted many an uproarious premiere of their raucous and startling works-as they seemed then. Stravinsky's Les Noces, De Falla's Le Tricorne, Ravel's La Valse, Honegger's Pacific 231 (which is dedicated to Ansermet) had first come to life under his baton. Between premieres and table-pounding talk with Picasso, Diaghilev, Prokofiev and Stravinsky ("a man of great culture-and the best businessman I ever knew"), Ansermet mastered the classics-without losing his appetite for the moderns...
Ansermet had been the first to interest Stravinsky and Ravel in jazz, which he had picked up on his first U.S. tour. Now he is convinced that "the days of jazz are over. It has made its contribution to music. Now in itself it is merely monotonous...
...have U.S. conductors stripped away the lacy ornamentation that Rimsky-Korsakov wrapped around some of his music.* Boris has never been produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the way Musorgsky wrote it; the piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition, are usually heard only in latter-day orchestrations by Ravel, Stokowski and others...