When’s the last time you heard “Bolero”? A recording? As a backdrop for a commercial? A musical score for a movie? Any chance you heard it played by a full orchestra in a big concert hall? If you’re ...

There are many reasons why a 21st-century orchestra that combines rock/electronica with classical music could fail. As Homer Simpson once said, “Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974.” ...

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The Lima Symphony Orchestra will bring the music of “Bolero” and “Carmen” to Veterans Memorial Civic Center Saturday. Submitted photo from the Lima Symphony Orchestra LIMA — The Lima Symphony ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From Bizet's "Carmen" to Ravel's hypnotic one-movement orchestral showpiece, ...

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.

Ravel’s Bolero was written by the composer in 1928. Yet, the piece gained new attention when it was prominently featured in the 1979 romantic comedy, “10” costarring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. We ...

Without question, and to his great dismay, the most famous and popular piece by French composer Maurice Ravel is his “Bolero,” which has found its way into popular consciousness by way of film, ...

The New Jersey Symphony kept things simple Sunday afternoon in Morristown. They played mostly French music, so one is tempted to use the Gallic word for simple, “facile.” Both these words describe the ...

Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic-Symphony concert in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was ...

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will go all out when it returns from winter break with a program that emphasizes its own virtuosity as well as its guest soloist. Music director Manfred Honeck will ...