New film explores inspiration, trauma and sorrow behind one of classical music’s most joyous symphonic works. Boléro, directed by Anne Fontaine, centres around 1928 – the year Ravel’s triumphant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clockwise from top, Lucy Davenport as Anne Adams, Leo Marks as Dr. Bruce Miller and Rob Nagle as Robert Adams. (Corwin Evans) In ...

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.

The most exquisite of all French composers; Maurice Ravel was a sensualist-perfectionist without parallel. Why is it that Ravel’s pieces often sound so different from one another? Ravel was one of the ...

It gave him a cut that needed several stitches, but it also left Ravel feeling shaken. Friends soon noticed changes — spelling mistakes in letters and an inability to write down music. For five years ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has been presenting Sunday afternoon concerts for more than 50 years. Pianist Phillipe Entremont made a return visit recently. This was the site of his ...

Four cellists play together on one instrument in a video from Wiener Cello Ensemble 5+1. In the video, the group performs Maurice Ravel's Bolero, with four men all placing their bows on a single cello ...

I sunk my teeth into Olivia Rodrigo’s new single “Vampire” this weekend to distract myself from the Supreme Court’s latest decisions. Many artworks spend a lifetime unseen, sitting in storage ...