Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday--Music Club Concert at Adams House, 7 o'clock. Works of Bach, Ravel, Block, and Brahms. Hubert Doris, piano; Fred Miller, cello...
...public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before a full house. He was the theater parking lot attendant, and the men in the orchestra pit had noticed him leading them from the stage door night after night. On this occasion they marched him to the podium and played his favorite composition under his baton...
...weeks with the New York Philharmonic, Munch scheduled nine pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...
...Princeton, N.J., Jean Casadesus, 21-year-old son (and pupil) of Pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, rehearsed one of his father's favorite pieces-Ravel's Piano Concerto-for his concert debut this spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Haydn's C Minor Symphony, No. 95, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prokofiev's Suite from the ballet Chout. Conductor: Richard Burgin...