Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there, giving piano lessons and an occasional recital, jotting down native dance tunes and turning them into her own compositions. Eventually, she abandoned the Western seven-note scale in favor of the Oriental five-note kind, but her music still had some of the impressionist quality of Debussy and Ravel...
...pastel shading. Then the pianist flashed through Schoenberg's tortuous Suite, Op. 25 and surprised even hardened modern music lovers: its improbable burblings came through almost as easily as a Viennese waltz. After that came Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 110 and, for a dazzling change of pace, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. When it was over, the audience demanded four encores...
...Gustave Singier is a highly sophisticated Parisian whose debt to Wassily Kandinsky is obvious. Like many Kandinskys, Singier's Homage to Ravel is made of neat snippets of color, tossing and crossing in cool space...
...Eastman School), and she applied for the position anyway. In July she traveled to Tanglewood for an audition with Conductor Charles Munch. She played him some Bach, waited while other applicants took their turns, then went back twice more to show what she could do with Debussy and Ravel. Munch took two months to decide. It was not until fortnight ago that a phone call came through from Boston: she could be first flutist, on a year's trial...
That will be Serafin's main job. He is also eager to take a hand in some of City Opera's new productions. He is scheduled to conduct Ravel's puckish L'Heure Espagnole last week...