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 ...

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 ...

Claimants, backed by composer’s estate, lose claim of co-authorship, described as ‘historical fiction’ A French court has ruled that Boléro, one of the best-known works of classical music in the world ...

With one listen, I was hooked. I was a 15-year-old suburban New Jersey nerd, racked with teenage lust but too timid to ask for a date. When I came across Boléro among the LPs in my parents' record ...

The Joffrey Ballet has announced a world premiere, “Boléro,” to be streamed by the company in February. It’ll be the first Joffrey performance since the pandemic, its first foray into online streaming ...

A boléro is a Spanish dance, characterised by strongly rhythmic qualities to the music, sharp turns and stamps of the dancers, and a dark flavour. The composer had found a single musical idea to twist ...

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 ...

Some performances become legendary even before they begin. Kim Ki-min’s “Boléro” was one such case. In the Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s first visit to Korea in 15 years, Kim, a principal dancer of the ...