Word: ravelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Tanglewood trip leaves by bus from Thayer Gate at 3 p.m. tomorrow. The Saturday evening concert, with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will include Handel's Water Music Suite, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3, and Bartok's Music for Strings and Percussion...
Sunday afternoon Eleazar de Carvalho will be guest conductor in a program featuring Jorge Bolet as soloist in Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Guarnieri's Second Symphony and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with orchestration by Ravel...
...show produced one clean hit: Ravel's La Valse, danced by members of the New York City Ballet. As the camera caught the sweep and color of the dancers, the background came alive with the gold and crystal of chandeliers, the black and blue checkerboard of floor, the blue and silver of walls...
...Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...