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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A French court was set to rule on whether “Bolero”, one of the best-known classical music pieces in the world, was written by Ravel alone. Maurice Ravel's 'Bolero ...

A single, sensual melody that slowly builds from the merest whisper to a triumphant shout: Ravel’s Boléro shows how much can be achieved with orchestral colour. This album is part of 1000 Years of ...

Even Maurice Ravel couldn't quite understand the enormous popularity of this piece. To his colleague Arthur Honegger, he said, "I created just one masterpiece, and it's 'Bolero'; unfortunately, it ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Albany Symphony Orchestra has a splendid program of classical music coming up at the Palace Theatre on Saturday night. On the program is Hector Berlioz’ masterpiece “Symphonie ...

What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

Dang Thai Son was the final recitalist of the PianoTexas International Academy and Festival Saturday night. Dang was the gold medalist in the 1980 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Michael Reaves - Staff ...