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by Georg Predota March 7th, 2025 Tags: Ravel

Ravel at 150: A Legacy of Innovation 150 years ago, on 7 March 1875, the small village of Ciboure in the Basque region of France saw the birth of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Son of a Swiss engineer and a Basque

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Charles Ives
Bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away!

Crazy Music
Alexander Agricola (1446-1506)

“The Pleasure of Love”

Behind the Curtain
Haydn’s Funeral Music

Memory like a Sieve!
Giuseppe Verdi

Tournedos à la Rossini

Violin Masterworks Inspired by Pablo de Sarasate

A New Idea with New Music

Earl Wild: Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess

Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant

Carmen La Cubana

The Inspiration of Imagination – Frodo & Bilbo

Padmâvatî: The Legendary Queen of Chittor

Hearing Beethoven a New Way
Michael Gordon: Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

Trouble in the Barnyard: Stravinsky and Renard

Enrique Granados: Transcending Nationalism

Arthur and the Lady Bliss
Arthur Bliss and Trudy Hoffmann

Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 “Seven Gates of Jerusalem”

He Had the Kind of Male Beauty That Could Cause Havoc – Albert Einstein

Antoine Reicha (1770-1836): A forgotten visionary

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