This tag: Ravel
Diaghilev This was a chronological examination of the great impresario’s touring opera and ballet company, particularly concentrating on the many works he commissioned from Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie, Prokofiev, De Falla, Poulenc, Milhaud and others. No one has done more to advance the development of music who was not themselves a composer or performer than the… Read more »
- Posted on: May 30, 2011
- Featured in Music, Music features
- Also tagged Ballet, Diaghilev, English Composer, French composers, Italian composers, Mussorgsky, Opera, Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composers, Stravinsky
This tag: Ravel
Unravelling Ravel A study of his life and music and that of his contemporaries. Maurice Ravel was a very private man who wrote some of the best-loved music of the twentieth century although he always dismissed Bolero as merely an academic exercise – but then he never saw Torvill and Dean. Works studied include Pavane pour… Read more »