Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

Bolero is perhaps most famous as the love theme for Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in the 1979 movie 10. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece a ...

And, at this time, Ravel was probably France’s most famous living composer, building a career that would mark him one of the country’s most famous composers to ever live. What is the story behind ...

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MAURICE RAVEL’S “Boléro” is a strange piece of music, consisting of two melodies repeated nine times each. Originally the score to a ballet, it is catchy and keeps running in the listener’s head long ...

One afternoon in the middle of a summer many years ago, when I was working as a record clerk in the Tower Records Classical Annex on the Sunset Strip, a rather extraordinary-looking woman walked into ...

Captured live at Paris’s Philharmonie, the performances feature the Chœur de Radio France under Lionel Sow and encompass nearly three hours of Ravel’s major orchestral works. The Orchestre National de ...

Some paintings are meant to be appreciated in silence – but not this one. It is called Unravelling Boléro, by Canadian artist Anne Adams, and is a bar-by-bar representation of the popular classical ...