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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

At a glance, John Williams’ movie music and Maurice Ravel’s piano music might have little in common — and of course, they don’t. Except that both composers very much reflect their nationalities.

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — The Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday offered a summer evening of musical storytelling that was alluring and colorful without excess. Under the elegant and incisive direction of ...

LUIS DIAS A recital by the award-winning Moroccan-Hungarian concert pianist, arranger, artistic director, teacher at the Liszt Academy Budapest, Marouan Benabdallah is something to be ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. By the time the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) bought Le Belvédère, his home for the last 16 years of his ...

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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 ...