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Question: Has anyone ever played Bolero by Maurice Ravel, if you did what part did you play and how did the performance go? I am not talking about any dumbed down arragment, I am talking about the real deal.
I played the flute part.
Answers: Has anyone ever played Bolero by Maurice Ravel, if you did what part did you play and how did the performance go? I am not talking about any dumbed down arragment, I am talking about the real deal.
I played the flute part.
For orchestration class, each of us was to report on a composition of our own choice.
I chose Ravel's Bolero and asked to go first.
I had to beg the professor to allow me to report on Ravel's Bolero.
I argued from the psychological theories of Jean Piaget.
Piaget saw an advantage in changing and examining one variable at a time before changing all the variables.
Since Ravel's Bolero comes the closest to varying only the orchestration, I thought it would be the ideal choice.
(I didn't think about Benjamin Britten's Purcell variations.)
At the premiere performance, a woman jumped up and screamed, "The man is a lunatic!"
Ravel smiled, nodded, and said, "She understands the piece perfectly."
i played de listener role in my PC.
by the way, Ravel's most popular work is pure useless music and very boot.
i hate the bolero.
so dumb easy man!
I played in the percussion section. Not the important snare drum part but the tam-tam part right at the end. It was fab.
Played it many times as my orchestra took it on tour. The two things I remember best were that the snare drummer used his finger tips instead of sticks to avoid cramping, and that most of us were always very glad when we finally got to the last page. It was afterall a conservatory EXERCIZE in orchestration.