Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With understandable pride, the orchestra played a modern Dutch composition, Henk Badings' Symphony No. 2 (1932), a sturdy work that might have been written by a latter-day Brahms, its three movements definitely dissonant but never harsh. High point of the concert was Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness...
...Roger Ravel '56, treasurer of the New England Region of the National Student Association, last night predicted that scores of University students would be affected by the ruling of the International Air Transport Association...
According to Ravel, the IATA decision to terminate special student rates was forced by Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines, who claimed that the existence of regular tourist services did away with any need for solely student flights...
...Ginette Neveu, the richly talented French violinist who died in an airplane crash five years ago. This piece is one of Debussy's last, and, while not his best, it is full of his special kind of interest. Also on the disk: Chausson's Poeme and Ravel's Tzigane...
...problem of when pictures for the cards would be taken must also be considered, Ravel pointed out. He said that a fine of some sort would probably be necessary as a penalty for those who did not meet appointments for photographs...