A few weeks ago, after getting Friday brunch with friends visiting from the US, we all decided to walk over to the Dizengoff Square fountain. My husband had reminded me the night before that the ...

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 ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co-written with ...

And, at this time, Ravel was probably France’s most famous living composer, building a career that would mark him one of the country’s most famous composers to ever live. What is the story behind ...

In this video, we enjoy Maurice Ravel’s famous Bolero, arranged by Francesco Tristano for two grand pianos, merging the work’s characteristic tension and building energy, with the sheer delight of ...

Some paintings are meant to be appreciated in silence – but not this one. It is called Unravelling Boléro, by Canadian artist Anne Adams, and is a bar-by-bar representation of the popular classical ...