This month, many classical music lovers noted Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday. On Monday, March 31, Quatuor Debussy pairs Ravel’s music with the composer whose name it carries in celebration of both ...

Conducted by French violinist Renaud Capuçon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne performs music from the inter-war period. This evening is dedicated, among others, to Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), ...

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.

On this week’s episode, we’re making the most of the last days of summer! We’ll be headed to sunny Spain, with music by Debussy, de Falla, and Ravel. Part of a larger set of orchestral pieces called ...

Linus Akesson performs Marice Ravel's Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments, including his incredible Commodordian and a C64 theremin. "The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?" he asks. "9 ...

This week's Feature Album, In Search of Lost Dance, presents music by Ravel arranged by the Linos Piano Trio in a fresh, personal, and bright new release. This music by Ravel written at a time of ...

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 ...

Ravel’s greatest significance was in establishing, with Debussy, a distinct French school of music, ridding it of Wagnerian influence. One of the greatest orchestrators in musical history, he put it ...

At 91 pounds, French composer Maurice Ravel was not exactly prime soldier material. And yet when Germany declared war on France in Aug. 1914, he felt compelled to enlist. As Tom Allen, host of CBC ...