New film explores inspiration, trauma and sorrow behind one of classical music’s most joyous symphonic works. Boléro, directed by Anne Fontaine, centres around 1928 – the year Ravel’s triumphant ...

Maurice Ravel was among the most significant and influential composers of the early twentieth century. Even though he’s sometimes linked with Claude Debussy as an exemplar of musical impressionism, ...

Dan Margolies has been a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, and KCUR Public Radio. He retired as a reporter in December 2022 after a 37-year journalism career.

The most exquisite of all French composers; Maurice Ravel was a sensualist-perfectionist without parallel. Why is it that Ravel’s pieces often sound so different from one another? Ravel was one of the ...

This month, many classical music lovers noted Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday. On Monday, March 31, Quatuor Debussy pairs Ravel’s music with the composer whose name it carries in celebration of both ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has been presenting Sunday afternoon concerts for more than 50 years. Pianist Phillipe Entremont made a return visit recently. This was the site of his ...

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Perfection, c’est travail, said Maurice Ravel. Pride in his own small and perfectly formed achievement, and a conviction that perfection is a supreme quality of art, lie behind those three words. But ...

Ravel’s greatest significance was in establishing, with Debussy, a distinct French school of music, ridding it of Wagnerian influence. One of the greatest orchestrators in musical history, he put it ...