Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel, Lecture 1 – “I am neither a romantic nor a classic. I am myself.”

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.”  —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken […]