The French composer Maurice Duruflé is sometimes said to be " the Ravel of the organ " and is clearly inspired by both Ravel and Debussy in several of his compositions, most notably perhaps the Sicilliene of the Suite pour orgue, op.

However, Ravel did criticize Debussy sometimes, particularly regarding his orchestration, and he once said, " If I had the time, I would reorchestrate La mer.

As Ravel said, “ It is probably better after all for us to be on frigid terms for illogical reasons .” Ravel stoically absorbed superficial comparisons with Debussy promulgated by biased critics, including Pierre Lalo, an anti-Ravel critic who stated, “ Where M. Debussy is all sensitivity, M. Ravel is all insensitivity, borrowing without hesitation not only technique but the sensitivity of other people .” During 1913, in a remarkable coincidence, both Ravel and Debussy independently produced and published musical settings for poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, again provoking comparisons of their work and their perceived influence on each other, which continued even after Debussy ’ s death five years later.

The family of her half-brother, Cipa Godebski, is said to have been like a second family for Ravel.

Ravel, who sometimes spent years refining a piece, said, “ My objective, therefore, is technical perfection.

Many later performances of the opera were also successful, not only with the general public but also with Strauss's peers: Maurice Ravel said that Salome was " stupendous ", and Mahler described it as " a live volcano, a subterranean fire ".

When Arbós heard of this, he said he would happily waive his rights and allow Ravel to orchestrate the pieces.

He told UK music journalist David Nathan in 1973, “ I always liked pretty music and I ’ ve always wanted to write it .” Added the writer, " He declined to give one particular influence or inspiration but said that Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky were amongst whom he studied.

Ravel reportedly said about Scarbo: " I wanted to write an orchestral transcription for the piano.

Maurice Ravel said of the young Françaix to the boy's parents, " Among the child's gifts I observe above all the most fruitful an artist can possess, that of curiosity: you must not stifle these precious gifts now or ever, or risk letting this young sensibility wither.

Composer Maurice Ravel said of Mason & Hamlin pianos, " While preserving all the qualities of the percussion instrument, the Mason & Hamlin pianoforte also serves magnificently the composer's concept by its extensive range in dynamics, as well as quality of tone.

Maurice Ravel apparently said of Antonio José: " He will become the Spanish composer of our century.

Riddle was a fan of Maurice Ravel, and has said that this arrangement was inspired by the Boléro.

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

Viñes, as usual, performed the premiere but his performance displeased Ravel, and their relationship became strained from then on.

In 1910, the society presented the premiere of Ravel ’ s Ma mère l ' oye ( Mother Goose ) in its original piano duet version.

In 1907 on Misia's boat L ' Aimée, Ravel completed L ' heure espagnole and the Rapsodie espagnole, and at the premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel arrived late and did not go to his box but to Misia's, where he offered her a Japanese doll.

Though a competent pianist, Ravel decided early on to have virtuosi, like Ricardo Viñes, premiere and perform his work.

But when Wittgenstein made changes to the score for the premiere, Ravel became incensed and the two never reconciled.

While in Amsterdam Monteux conducted operas, including Pelléas et Mélisande, its Dutch premiere, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, a Lully and Ravel double bill of Acis et Galatée and L ' heure espagnole, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride ( also brought to the Paris Opéra ) and Verdi's Falstaff.

Set design for the world premiere of the ballet Daphnis et Chloë ( music by Maurice Ravel ), Paris 1912.

According to a possibly apocryphal story, in the mayhem that followed the premiere performance a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad.

Eventually, Ravel offered the premiere and dedicated the concerto to Marguerite Long, who was known for her performances of the works of Fauré and Debussy and had earlier asked Ravel for a new work.

A few days after this highly successful premiere, Ravel and Long started a tour of twenty cities in Europe, where it was received with consistent enthusiasm ..

She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “ Concerts with Commentary ”.

Ravel was closely involved in every aspect of the production as it was prepared for its premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

In an interview published two days before the premiere, Ravel explained his approach to his new opera.

" In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA. com, Voight said he first met Giuliani " years ago " at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?

Writing to his sister after the premiere, Britten said of his music, " I hope it'll make people think a bit.

He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited.

After its premiere, Mahler is reported to have said, “ Nobody understood it.

In the show which aired on June 5, 2007, Kimmel sent his sidekick Guillermo to the Ocean's Thirteen premiere to interview Matt Damon, though when he started the interview, he said that they were out of time, at which point Damon assumed that Kimmel sent him.

It is also said that the Italian guitar virtuoso Mauro Giuliani played cello at the premiere.

The April 2011 premiere of his last film, Decisions, at the Writers Guild Theater included an onstage tribute by Corey Feldman, who said " I think it ’ s great that this is a memorial tonight as well as a film premiere ”, and thanked the Writers Guild for " giving a memorial that his friends and fans have wanted .”

* Palace Theatre: The former premiere vaudeville theatre is said to be haunted by more than 100 ghosts.

Despite the fact that Smith is a practicing Catholic, as Kevin Smith confirmed in an interview on the film's DVD, several religious groups, especially the Catholic League, said the film was anti-Catholic and blasphemous, and organized protests, including one that took place at the November 12 premiere of the film at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast was supposed to premiere on Teletoon in Canada in 1998, but it was said that a celebrity tried to stop that decision.

Before the work's premiere, a friend of Shostakovich said to him, " It would be so good if instead of Stalin you had, say, the queen of the Netherlands — she's a big fan of reforestation.

* " Once Giya Kancheli, a composer dressed in a velvety dark blue double-breasted jacket and with similarly velvety eyes, after a premiere to which he came from Germany, said the following words to me about Rodion Shchedrin: “ This is a significant composer, possibly, the greatest composer alive in the world ”.

Theo Kavadias of Allmusic said, " Front Line Assembly, one of the premiere electro-industrial acts, has done much to help define what the genre is about.

According to USA Today, the second season premiere had about 2. 7 million viewers, which it said was a slight 3 % gain over the first season's premiere.

At the films premiere, Linder had said to director Robert Florey " You see, Bob, I sense that I'm no longer funny ; I have so many preoccupations that I can no longer concentrate on my film character ... The public is mildly amused by my situations, but this evening where were the explosions of laughter that we hear when Charlie's on the screen ?... Make people laugh, its easy to say make people laugh, but I don't feel funny anymore.

" We got to pretty much be the premiere MP3 player on the Mac ," said Robin Casady, co-owner of Casady & Greene.

Monroe and Clift attended the premiere in New York in February 1961 while Monroe was on pass from a psychiatric hospital ; she later said that she hated the film and herself in it.

The following year, when Vogl sang the role of Pizarro at the premiere of the final version of Beethoven's Fidelio, it is said that the 17-year-old Schubert actually sold his schoolbooks in order to afford a ticket.

But her favorite color is rainbow ( As Harmony said in the series premiere ), Yumi also states that her favorite color is pink.

From its premiere at the Capitol cinema in Berlin until 1934 the film is said to have grossed some RM6, 000, 000.

In the United Kingdom, the Il Divo album knocked Robbie Williams out of the number 1 spot in the UK charts, Williams allegedly said to them at the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason film premiere, “ So you are the four idiots who have forced me off my number one spot !”.

Tchaikovsky said of the premiere: