This Grade A music geek has written lyrics for the double bass part of Ravel’s Boléro – and they’re completely perfect. Poor double bassists: they get the rough end of the deal in Ravel’s orchestral ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

French composer Maurice Ravel debuted his Bolero in 1928, with a full orchestral arrangement. Since then, it’s been performed with just about every possible arrangement, and in every style. There’s… ...

Carolina Ballet’s guest choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett created a ballet to Maurice Ravel’s well-known orchestral piece, Boléro. Geoff Wood Photography When Carolina Ballet’s artistic director ...