【Ravel Boléro Trial】Follow-up—The Appellate Trial as Seen Through Reports from Le Figaro and Le Temps

In our previous note, the Japan Maurice Ravel Society reported on the first news regarding the appellate trial over the ...

Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe — notes between nations

A witty historical novel turns the real-life relationship between Ralph Vaughan Williams and Maurice Ravel into a meditation ...

Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?

The unlikely friendship between French and English composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams has inspired a tender and generous novel ...
Classic FM

A new biopic about Maurice Ravel and his iconic ‘Boléro’ is set for 2024 release

New film explores inspiration, trauma and sorrow behind one of classical music’s most joyous symphonic works. Boléro, directed by Anne Fontaine, centres around 1928 – the year Ravel’s triumphant ...

【Boléro Trial】The Appeal Court Opens—The Quagmire Battle Over the Recognition of "Co-authors"

The Japan Maurice Ravel Society has been continuously reporting on the copyright lawsuit surrounding Maurice Ravel's ...
The Guardian

Ravel: 'One is glad to have his exquisite art as part of the world’s music'

From the classical archive, 22 October 1928: a review of a performance in London by the composer and pianist who ‘transcends his limitations’ London, Sunday Mr Gordon Bryan was fortunate in having ...
The Daily Telegraph

Why Ravel is almost a great composer

Perfection, c’est travail, said Maurice Ravel. Pride in his own small and perfectly formed achievement, and a conviction that perfection is a supreme quality of art, lie behind those three words. But ...