Word: ravelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks with the New York Philharmonic, Munch scheduled nine pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...
...Princeton, N.J., Jean Casadesus, 21-year-old son (and pupil) of Pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, rehearsed one of his father's favorite pieces-Ravel's Piano Concerto-for his concert debut this spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Haydn's C Minor Symphony, No. 95, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prokofiev's Suite from the ballet Chout. Conductor: Richard Burgin...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, Ravel's La Valse. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
...Koussevitzky's programming and interpretation still rages, however. Since generalities are particularly dangerous when great musicians are involved, this reviewer can only say that he viewed the choice and execution of half the Sunday afternoon concert of the Orchestra in rather a dim light. A program of Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This...