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...cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born in 1875 in a Pyrenees town...
...idioms of exotic or historic peoples, dishing them up in his own particular French sauce. Thus his opera L'Heure Espagnole and his descriptive orchestral works Bolero, Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement in Ma Mere I'Oye reflects Oriental idioms; a violin sonata is based on American "blues." Though a brilliant orchestrator and a resourceful stylist, he was not a great originator...
...orchestra will open the concert with Ravel's suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin," to be followed by Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D Miner, the four movements of which will be played through without a pause. After the intermission the program will be concluded by the famous Fifth Symphony of Beethoven. Admission will...
...Tombeau de Couperin Ravel
...program is as follows: Le reville-matin Couperin Le bavolet flottant Couperin Rondo alla Turca Mozart Variations serieuses Mendelssohn Fourth Sonata Scriabine Rigaudon, from "Le tombeau de Couperin" Ravel Alborada del graciosco Chopin Nocurne Chopin Deux ecossaises Chopin Hungarian Rhapsody number 13 Liszt