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 ...

On this week’s episode, we’re making the most of the last days of summer! We’ll be headed to sunny Spain, with music by Debussy, de Falla, and Ravel. Part of a larger set of orchestral pieces called ...

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.

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 ...

Maurice Ravel had a habit of rearranging his music from piano to orchestra and back. In that spirit, here's a medley of three different arrangements of Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." Michael Stern ...

LENOX — Towards the end of his opera “L’enfant et les sortilèges,” when the title child is wounded in a suddenly dark and mysterious garden, Maurice Ravel slips us a morsel under the table. It’s a few ...

Ravel first performed "Bolero" at the Paris Opera in 1928 and it was an immediate sensation. He died 10 years later and his heirs earned millions of dollars until the copyright ran out in 2016 and the ...

Boston had the honor last week of being first to entertain Maurice Ravel, French composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his ...

A French court has ruled that Bolero, one of the world's best-known classical music pieces, was written by Maurice Ravel alone, a financial blow both to his descendants and those of the man they said ...

Have you ever stood up close to a painting in a museum, as close as you can get? Close enough to get lost in those captivating swoops of paint, so close you forget the very thing those swoops are ...