Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first to start on the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's new Piano Concerto...
Koussevitzky deserved to win. Composer Ravel had promised him the premiere to help celebrate the Boston Symphony's semicentennial (TIME, Oct. 13, 1930). Ravel claimed then that he was "aiming less at profundity than at setting in relief the pianist's virtuosity." Just the same he could not get his Concerto finished last year. It took him two years to write it, working ten and twelve hours a day. When it was done, his contract with Koussevitzky was already broken. Conductor Stokowski was also a potent leader with a penchant for doing "first times." What could be more...
...introduced more than 700 songs. Last week's program was typically distinctive. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court musician to Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg (Wozzeck) was done so effectively that a sudden wail which came from the audience struck people at first as an overtone which be longed there. But it was a listener taken with...
...people six weeks ago and as a souvenir of his travels he presented with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last week the world premiere of H. P., a "ballet-symphony" written five years ago by Carlos Chavez, the Mexican who guided him on his musical tour. Ravel's L'Heitre Espagnole served as curtain-raiser, a naughty opera concerning a clockmaker's insatiable wife, never intended for the literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters H. P., with a heavy, everyday horse...
...Boston musicians will render for the opening number Prokofieff's "Classical Symphony" Cp. 25. This will be followed by D'Arcy's "Symphonic Variations from Isiah Op. 42" and Ravel's "Rhapsodie Rapatele". Next on the program will be and "Lieheated" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde". The Overture to "Tannhauser" will conclude the program...