Month: September 2017
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Ravel’s Sonatine
Sonatine, Mvt. 1 Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) “Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah” Improvisation In 1903 Ravel wrote the first movement of the Sonatine for a competition sponsored by the Weekly Critical Review magazine after being encouraged by a close friend who was a contributor to that publication. The competition requirement was the composition of the…
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The Sunken Cathedral
La Cathédrale Engloutie (“The Sunken Cathedral”) C. Debussy (1862–1918) By the Babylonian Rivers Extemporisation The people of the Brittany section of France have a legend that a cathedral sank to the bottom of the ocean when the ancient city of Ys was engulfed by the sea as punishment for her evil and foolish ways (a…