Well, blow this! (at the start, anyway)

[Airspeed]

Sit down, get comfortable......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KsXPq3nedY

[Nigel H-J]

Excellent Mike, I really enjoyed listening to that.

Regards
Nigel.

[FlyTexas]

Very nice. The conductor looks a bit like film director Quentin Tarantino.

Brian

[simondix]

Very nice. The conductor looks a bit like film director Quentin Tarantino.

Brian

I thought more like Max Boyce

[nigelb]

Thanks for posting that Mike. Only one change of keys in the entire piece but very haunting with Ravel's masterful use of orchestration.

Nigel²

[Filonian]

What a wonderful start to Sunday. Many thanks Mike. In cases like this, I enjoyed it more because they looked as if they were enjoying it. I think I would have enjoyed playing under such an animated conductor.


Graham

[Airspeed]

Glad you enjoyed it, Gentlemen!
I am no music expert; "..a change of key...." I was intrigued as to how the snare drummer managed to put those earrings on without missing a beat.
Anyway, I've often wondered why the melody suddenly becomes so raucous at the end, so I looked it up.
Anybody interested: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rav ... ls-bolero/
Another of life's mysteries solved.

[airboatr]

I thought of this when I first read the thread topic
https://youtu.be/EGwXj4vOalo

[Airspeed]

They sound very civilised!

"Excuse me my good man, but we've come to blast your ship out of the water; is that OK?
Come on, men, back up the rigging, last one to make a hornpipe is a girls blouse!"

[nigelb]

Glad you enjoyed it, Gentlemen!
I am no music expert; "..a change of key...." I was intrigued as to how the snare drummer managed to put those earrings on without missing a beat.
Anyway, I've often wondered why the melody suddenly becomes so raucous at the end, so I looked it up.
Anybody interested: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rav ... ls-bolero/
Another of life's mysteries solved.

Yes Mike, one change of Key from C Major to E Major at the end! Unusual for classical music because composers usually modulated to several keys in their compositions contributing to the variety of the piece. Ravel achieved variety by the use of instrumental and harmonic variety. Mozart was famous for traveling around most of the circle of fifths. The first movement of his 40th symphony is evidence of that. "Circle of fifths?" No, nothing to do with bottles of whiskey volume (Colonial measurement) so you will have to google that to learn all about it. Music, mathematics and physics are all related and this is evidenced by the circle of fifths. Probably more than you ever wanted or needed to know.

Nigel²