Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention against all the cast around her. One scene in particular comes to mind, where Miss Pennington, elevated above the other figures of the ensemble, is revealed by the rising curtain in a dimly-lighted setting of red, black, and purple. Slow music, with the drums, becomes very like Ravel's "Bolero," and before long Miss Pennington is at it again, arms and legs, in double-quick time...
...Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part organ, part piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer Darius Milhaud, who named a pantomime Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Also went Writer Paul Morand, Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Fisticuffer Georges Carpentier, the late King Ferdinand of Rumania, musical Prince Charles of Belgium. Six years ago as Le Boeuf began...
...order that his occasional sallies into Symphony Hall will not cause the Vagabond to forget that there are other men besides Ravel and Pierne who write music, he will go today at 12 to the Music Building, where Professor Ballantine will play and explain Opus 2, Part 2 of Beethoven's Sonatas. There is no greater biography of Beethoven than his own music, no greater music than Beethoven...
...made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...
...Roger H. Sessions and George Gershwin, who, he says, is "the only U. S. composer to have a popular following in Europe." And in his fourth concert, Conductor Reiner-who once studied for the Hungarian bar-gave a program composed of the works of four living musicians (Stravinsky, Kodaly, Ravel, Henry Hadley), two dead within the century (Debussy, Goldmark...