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Music is always better in person, but for some reason for me Bolero is dramatically better in person. The opening feels so much more vulnerable. The sense of anticipation and climax is more than audible somehow, and a sense of being on a ride together with the musicians and the rest of the audience is palpable.
The Ravel Boléro remains one of the most radical pieces ever made; making music that’s both inhuman and human, machine-obsessed and disturbingly sensual, and totally – Boléro! Tom Service asks what makes the Boléro by Maurice Ravel so unique, perhaps the most experimental piece of orchestral music in the canon.
Jan 18, 2018 · If I were to do Bolero a complete injustice and reduce it down to one sentence, it would be this one: Bolero is the same melody 18 times, played over one rhythm that sometimes gets asked on percussion auditions**.
‘Boléro’ became Ravel's most famous composition, much to the surprise of the composer, who had predicted that most orchestras would refuse to play it. This was not his only recorded negative view of the piece.
He was about to go for a swim when he called a friend over to the piano and, playing the melody with one finger, asked: “Don’t you think that has an insistent quality? I’m going to try to repeat it a number of times without any development, gradually increasing the orchestra as best I can.”
Today, Boléro is universally loved - except, perhaps, by the percussionists who have to play the same rhythm 169 times, with clockwork precision. There can be no hesitation, and no mistakes.
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Dec 5, 2016 · Plenty of people, it seems, still like to get their freak on with Ravel: in a 2012 poll of Spotify users, Boléro was outsexed by only Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. A young celesta player, writing in 2011, called Boléro "remarkably sexual."
