Ravel & Michael Tilson Thomas

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Ravel & Michael Tilson Thomas

An intriguing program is capped by Ravel�s mind-blowing takes on the simple waltz.

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15.01.2021 20:00:00 --- 15.01.2021 20:00:00

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https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/976/2021-01-15/ravel-michael-tilson-thomas

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Walt Disney Concert Hall , 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Last Update: 01.16.2020

Description Of Event	Ravel described La valse in the preface to his score: �Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the fortissimo. Set in an imperial court, about 1855.� When most listeners hear the extraordinary calisthenics that he puts the traditional dance through, they imagine a metaphor for the end of civilization, which is not without reason. Ravel wrote this waltz after WWI, and there are both nostalgic sounds that filled the regal courts of yesteryear Europe and the destruction that would befall the continent in the �war to end all wars.� Continuing with the dance theme is Valses nobles et sentimentales, inspired by works of Schubert of the same name, this set of waltzes showcases Ravel�s orchestral clarity and vivid imagination to make the form his own. nnBesides Ravel�s stunning waltzes, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts his own song cycle on lyric poems by German writer Rainer Maria Rilke sung by Sasha Cooke and Dashon Burton. Musically, Thomas said he was influenced by Schubert, Mahler, and Berg in this cycle but blends that with a decidedly American point of view that the San Francisco Chronicle likened to �a Schubertian cowboy song� at its premiere in early 2020. German poetry, Austrian musical influencers, and decidedly American idioms (like a honky-tonk piano that starts the cycle) might be hard to conjure, but �with [Thomas�] distinctive spin,� the Chronicle continued �the results are invigorating.�
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