Sonic Asymmetry

Maurice Ravel: “Boléro”

モーリス・ラヴェル：「ボレロ」

TIME COMMITMENT: 15 minutes

Jaded, as we are, by the familiarity with this piece, we should, for once, detect the composer’s full panoply of flippant, carnavalesque whim – executed on strings played alternatively portato, jeté, secco.  Nor should it be missed how this modernist archbishop of orchestral color augmented Western rhythmic vocabulary with his newfangled approach to percussion.   Alas, not everyone likes this conductor.  Or his toothpick, for that matter.

MUSIC

INFO

https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2016/12/05/ravel-bolero

A REFLECTION

The moon now rises to her absolute rule,

And the husbandman and hunter

Acknowledge her for their mistress.

Asters and golden reign in the fields

And the life everlasting withers not.

Henry David Thoreau: “The Moon Now Rises to Her Absolute Rule”