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...will conduct during the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks; Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten of the Portland (Ore.) Symphony Orchestra, the first three and last two. First-nighters last week flocked to hear, not Wagner, not Strauss, not Tchaikovsky, though their names bulked large as old favorites, but French Maurice Ravel's cumulative, dynamic symphonic sensation, Bolero...
...Author. Gabrielle Colette, 57, foremost living French woman writer, was born in the provinces of bourgeois parents, still speaks French with a Burgundian accent. Onetime barnstormer, dancer, Colette draws, writes music, has recently written a ballet for Composer Maurice Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...
...Ravel's Bolero by Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)?A highly charged reading of the season's symphonic sensation in Paris, Manhattan and Boston. The records, with Satie's placid Gymnopedie on the back of the second, are already best sellers...
...program for tonight's concert is made up of: Concerto in C major by Vivaldi-Kreisler, Concert Piece in A major by Saint-Saens, Sonata in D minor by Brahms. Berceuse by F. Faure, Bagatelle by Scarlatesco, Chaconne by Vitali, and Tzigane by Ravel...
...Subscriber Meany see TIME, Dec. 16 for a report on recent Ravel recordings. Of his "Turkey-in-the-Straw," Pianist Grainger has made no phonograph record...