Jane Jones marks both the Winter Olympics and St. Valentine’s Day with a work which is associated with both occasions. Boléro, the most famous work by French composer Maurice Ravel, was written more ...

MAURICE RAVEL’S “Boléro” is a strange piece of music, consisting of two melodies repeated nine times each. Originally the score to a ballet, it is catchy and keeps running in the listener’s head long ...

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 ...

Please don’t stop the music: Anne Fontaine isn’t done with it just yet. Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another ...

Stephen Johnson on Ravel's Bolero and his other late works. Do they show signs of the dementia that led to his early death, or does his genius remain intact despite his problems? Show more Bolero is ...

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Tom Service explores Ravel's Bolero – a classical chart-topper, concert-hall-filler and the soundtrack to Torvill and Dean's Olympic skating glory. Show more Tom Service explores Ravel's Bolero – a ...

Even Maurice Ravel couldn't quite understand the enormous popularity of this piece. To his colleague Arthur Honegger, he said, "I created just one masterpiece, and it's 'Bolero'; unfortunately, it ...

Paris-based SND has boarded Anne Fontaine’s Boléro about the birth of the renowned orchestral work from Maurice Ravel, now shooting in France. SND, the film arm of France’s M6 group, is on board as co ...