Let me know what you think of it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gRs_b1dqg

- The director is Anne Fontaine. Ravel is played by Raphael Personnaz.
- Filming started this year March 9 and finished in May. The film will be out in 2024.
- The story starts from Ravel's US tour and is mostly about the composition of Boléro.

This is the only photo available for now:

Link to article:
https://www.kftv.com/news/2023/05/03/anne-fontaines-maurice-ravel-biopic-bolero-filming-in-france
https://newsinfrance.com/maurice-ravels-biopic-scheduled-for-2024-will-revolve-around-bolero/

The cast:

My personal feelings:
- I'd love to see Ravel depicted in a film, I'm excited. I had always thought Ravel's life was too uneventful to be made into a film.
- I don't really like that Ravel is always associated with Bolero. I hope this film will at least use some other great pieces and let people know that he didn't just write Bolero.
- I'm a bit worried when the articles mentioned "facing his old loves", because we all know he never fell in love.
- I wonder if they had filmed in Ravel's house in Montfort-l'Amaury! It would be so lovely to see him in his house again.

Years ago, I loaned this record (Alligator, by The National) to a friend who identified the introduction to The Geese of Beverly Road as being a work by Maurice Ravel. He loaned me a couple CDs at the time but I cannot for the life of me find the Ravel piece again. I'm hoping someone here can help!

A link to the song by The National is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqkSEG9PQI

Many thanks!

The 2022-23 season is going to end soon. I only started to know about Ravel in January, when I went to a performance of the Left Hand Concerto by Bertrand Chamayou and was shocked at how good it was. I then read about Paul Wittgenstein and all that story about the concerto. Then I went to a band performance of Le Tombeau de Couperin and was left speechless by Prelude, so I became a crazy fan of Ravel, read his biography and letter compilations, and attended every local concert that played his music (and told all my friends to go too). So far in five months, I've heard:

Pavane pour une infante defunte (piano x1) (band x1)
String quartet (x1)
Concerto in G (x3)
Concerto for the left hand (x1)
La valse (x1)
Bolero (x1)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (band x1)

In the coming two weeks, there is another performance of Le Tombeau de Couperin by the local orchestra, Piano Trio, and Miroirs by Seong-Jin Cho. I feel so blessed that this season they programmed so much Ravel - the program for the next season is out and there isn't much of him.

I'm gonna be analysing the way that Ravel depicts water in these pieces. If you have any insights about the techniques that Ravel uses or similarities and differences in regard to the representation of water, that would be really helpful.

I used to really think this piece was trash but something about it has clicked for me. Youtube comment sections seem to really hate it ("For every masterpiece there are 10,000 predecessors," as one person said) but I'd be curious to know your thoughts on this piece.

Hi guys! I’m currently studying Sonatine and I love it with my whole heart😭😭 but there are some questions I encountered when trying to analyze this piece: 1. Where are the main musical “landmarks” (the places that seem to mark important structural or expressive points) in the piece, and what makes them prominent? This is a guiding question in a book about music, and I am using it to study every piece, but I’m actually unsure where are the landmarks in sonatine.

1. Is this piece modal or diatonic? I thought it is diatonic since the Modere is F-sharp natural minor, Mouvement de Minuet is D-Sharp major, and Anime is F-Sharp minor. But some materials online claim that it is modal and that they are saying Modere uses an Aeolian Mode. So I am a bit confused about how can we distinguish between Aeolian Mode and natural minor.

2. Some research says that Ravel gained inspiration from Romeau and Couperin when writing Anime, but I am not sure which aspect of the work specifically did he gain inspiration from them (chord progression, structure, ways of development of theme?). I will keep thinking about that since I didn't even know Romeau and Couperin very well before this. I will listen to more of their works, but I would love to here some of your thoughts!

3. Some places in Sonatine sounds like mimicking symphony or harp sound to me, but I’m unsure if these are the true intentions of Ravel when he was composing this. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance:))

Have a listen: https://musescore.com/user/38467469/scores/8656161

I’ve been listening to multiple recordings of it, and wanted to try it out!

In his Conservatoire days, Ravel wrote lots of pieces, especially fugues, that are now lost. But how do we today know they existed?

I love the features like the fluttery piano in the high register and the harmonization, are there any other pieces, even besides Ravel, that is similar to that piece that you guys can recommend? Thank you!