Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed the direction of French music in the early 20th century, leading to the ...

This month, many classical music lovers noted Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday. On Monday, March 31, Quatuor Debussy pairs ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, born on 7 March 1875 ... Left Hand’ to the haunting rhythm of his ‘Bolero’, Ravel redefined the boundaries of classical music, combining ...

NMSU Music Department’s Dr. Laura Spitzer gave her final show before retirement with Dr. Thomas Otten in a recital dedicated ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Maurice Ravel visited Northeast Ohio in 1928 ... Nikolai Sokoloff, then music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, would recount afterward how Ravel came late to rehearsal ...

Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has held a long relationship with Maurice Ravel's music. One of his earliest recital programs was to present the complete works for the Frenchman. Ravel, himself a ...

The New York Philharmonic and its next music director gave “Sémiramis” its first public hearing, alongside other Ravel pieces ...

But the score that he was giddily studying on a recent afternoon at Lincoln Center was different: a nearly 125-year-old piece by the French composer Maurice ... to shape Ravel’s music in an ...

When the Sarasota Orchestra performs Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” at its next ... that has become one of the most familiar in classical music. It is Suchocka’s job to set a tone and a rhythm ...

Intermède was only discovered in 2001 in a hand-written copy made by Maurice Dumesnil ... it indicates Debussy's knowledge of Tchaikovsky's music and probably postdates the Trio.

Just days before Henri's plane was shot down the three young men went to a concert of Ravel's music in York. So the piece has a strong emotional meaning for Genevieve whose own father was also ...