This past Thursday we celebrated the birthday of the great composer Maurice Ravel, whose marvelous orchestral composition Boléro has entertained millions of listeners with its haunting melody. Today, in honor of M. Ravel, we have the Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra playing his famous piece under the direction of conductor Gustavo Dudamel ...
Boléro has always been one of my favorite instrumental pieces, and I hope you enjoyed it as well, in spite of the stupid ad inserted in the middle, which you can skip after about five seconds. I hope there's an extra-hot spot in Hell for the guy who came up with that idea.
Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend. More thoughts coming.
Bilbo
Isn't Bolero supposed to be a sex song?
ReplyDeleteMike - I don't know about that, but THE Bolero is a very sexy dance.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia... Literary critic Allan Bloom commented in his 1987 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind, "Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse. That is why Ravel's Bolero is the one piece of classical music that is commonly known and liked by them."
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