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SO Bolero was my only reference point for Ravel. For the longest time, I said I hated Ravel, lol. Now I've heard all the orchestral and a good amount of his other work, I adore him. But Bolero seems like just some sort of composing exercise or something.
Jan 18, 2018 · January 18, 2018. Everyone knows it. All musicians (some probably just avoid mass shaming and ridicule) claim they hate it. The composer who wrote it is widely known to dislike the piece. But audiences? Audiences love Bolero.
I don't hate it. Admittedly, it's a piece that has become too famous for its own good (like Beethoven's Für Elise), but that doesn't mean it's bad necessarily, or aimed at uneducated people. The most obvious criticism of Boléro is that it outstays its welcome.
It’s one of the classical works that is well enough known that its actual musical merit is almost irrelevant. Like the William Tell overture or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. In the case of Bolero, it developed a sexual connotation as well, because of its use in Blake Edwards’ film “10” in the late seventies.
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.
Dec 5, 2016 · Maurice Ravel's Boléro is one of the most famously erotic pieces of classical music. To some 21st century ears, though, it's become the musical equivalent of shag carpeting. The quarter-hour composition wasn't originally conceived as a soundtrack to sex.
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The Story Of Ravel's Boléro. Before he left for a triumphant tour of North America in January 1928, Maurice Ravel had agreed to write a Spanish-flavoured ballet score for his friend, the Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960).
