Word: ravelling
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...slow start Friday night, but it was worth the wait. Their closing performance of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe was magnificent. It was the best I've ever heard them play...
Perhaps it's just that I'm an incurable Ravel fan. His harmonies include the most luscious, delicious chords in the history of music. His instrumentation is wizardly: the slow buildup from one section of instruments to another in the opening bars of Daphnis puts you, magically, right in the middle of a mythical forest. And his dexterity in creating, and changing, the most emotional of moods affects the glands like nothing after the Baroque...
James D. Yannatos, assistant professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in works by Gabrieli, Yannatos (world premier), Mozart, and Ravel at 8:30 p.m. night in sanders Theatre. Tickets at Coop and at the door...
...little carriage," and "was thin as a stick because I never went to bed until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Heitor Villa-Lobos (whom he had discovered playing the cello in the pit of a Rio de Janeiro movie theater...
...Toscanini was always playing the cello when he conducted, Koussevitzky the double bass, Stokowski the organ." Ormandy plays one big lush violin. His music is coated with the satiny sheen of wall-to-wall strings, a sound that readily lends itself to the works of the romantics-Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Debussy, Brahms...