Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated box during the 30 seconds allowed before he tries for the big money. According to Leyden, the best suspense music is supplied by muted brasses, and combinations like the piccolo, harp and xylophone. A piece like Ravel's Bolero is best for times of tension...
...there is also a large quota of safe and popular items-currently a new Madama Butterfly (the seventh on LP) ^and Oistrakh playing Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. On the chic side, there are exquisite performances of the most sensuous musings of Debussy (Trois Nocturnes, La Mer) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe, L'Heure Espagnole}. There are also imposing works of Stravinsky and Bartok...
...sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket chirps, with the sounds of huge crowds of faceless people roaring. Eventually, a passage of simple dissonance sounded as sensual as Ravel...
...away bottles in convenient places, Fuller stashes away girls in convenient apartments. He once hired a psychologist to find out what kind of music has the most relaxing effect on women and put together several "Seduction Suites," consisting of six or eight records each. All the suites end with Ravel's Bolero-"Greatest closing piece of music ever written [for] all the different types...
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Pijper, Beethoven, Ravel...