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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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All Of The Month Love Inspiration Anecdotes Interviews

1937 Posts

Leonard Bernstein: Music can communicate the unknowable

Sounds of Sorrow: Elegies and Laments I

Musical Double Takes
Bach, Bentzon, Czerny, Rekhin, Rheinberger, and Madsen

Destination Paris

Variations on the Goldberg III

Stravinsky Meets Modern

Composers of the Zodiac
The Tropic of Cancer

William Henry Fry’s Santa Claus: Christmas Symphony

Whatever Horowitz wants, Horowitz gets!
Samuel Barber : Excursions

Writing What She Wants to Play
An Interview with Harpist and Composer Fiona Rutherford

Minors of the Majors
Johannes Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder

Destination Madrid

Extreme Danger! There is an Opera in Town

The Dark Trip – d’Indy’s Tableaux du voyage

“Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”
Nursery Rhymes in Urban Legend and Music

Robert Burns (1759-1796)
National Poet of Scotland

Unsung Concertos
Thomas Tellefsen: Piano Concerto No. 2

A Whale Strangled by a Giant Squid
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto

Queen and Writer: Elisabeth of Wied and Carmen Sylva

The Transfigured Night
Richard Dehmel, Arnold Schoenberg and Oskar Fried

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