Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

Ravel first performed "Bolero" at the Paris Opera in 1928 and it was an immediate sensation. He died 10 years later and his heirs earned millions of dollars until the copyright ran out in 2016 and the ...

French composer Maurice Ravel debuted his Bolero in 1928, with a full orchestral arrangement. Since then, it’s been performed with just about every possible arrangement, and in every style. There’s… ...

Bolero is perhaps most famous as the love theme for Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in the 1979 movie 10. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece a ...

This Grade A music geek has written lyrics for the double bass part of Ravel’s Boléro – and they’re completely perfect. Poor double bassists: they get the rough end of the deal in Ravel’s orchestral ...

A French court ruled Friday that "Bolero", one of the world's best-known classical music pieces, was written by Maurice Ravel alone, a financial blow both to his descendants and those of the man they ...

The insistent melody and repeated snare-drum rhythms have become synonymous with carnal desire. Most famously, the tune is remembered for its key role in the movie 10, when a young Bo Derek explains ...