The original instrumentation was for violin and piano ( with optional luthéal attachment ).

By the end of the 20th century the first print of the accompaniment with luthéal was still available at the publishers, but by that time the attachment had long since disappeared from use.

The first performance of the version with piano without luthéal was by Robert Soetens in 1925.

The first performance took place in London on April 26, 1924 with the dedicatee on violin and with Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano ( with luthéal ).

The luthéal, however, did not achieve permanence.

Back in the studio, seeking a change from the doo-wop styled pop sound of " Only the Lonely " and " I'm Hurtin '", Orbison worked on a new song, " Running Scared ", based loosely on the rhythm of Ravel's Boléro ; the song was about a man on lookout for his girlfriend's previous boyfriend, who he feared would try to take her away.

The composer, Koji Kondo, initially planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the game's title theme, but was forced to change it when he learned, late into the game's development cycle, that the copyright for Boléro hadn't expired yet ; therefore he wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day.

Ravel's String Quartet in F, probably modeled on Debussy ’ s Quartet ( 1893 ), is now a standard work of chamber music, though at the time it was criticized and found lacking academically.

In 1912, Ravel's Ma mère l ' oye was performed as a ballet ( with added music ) after being first transcribed from piano to orchestra.

So exhausting was the effort to score the ballet that Ravel's health deteriorated, with a diagnosis of neurasthenia soon forcing him to rest for several months.

Ravel's death was probably a result of the brain surgery, with the underlying cause arguably being a brain injury caused by the automobile accident in 1932, and not from a brain tumor as some believe.

In his Maurice Ravel: A Life, published in 2000, biographer Benjamin Ivry presents evidence in support of his thesis that Ravel's lack of known intimate relationships may be explained if he was a " very secretive " gay man.

In his review of Ivry's biography for Library Journal Larry Lipkis is persuaded by Ivry's research that, " There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations ," but also expresses the view that Ivry's work is less persuasive in definitively linking Ravel's sexuality to characteristics of his musical oeuvre.

Ravel's musical language was ultimately very original, neither absolutely modernist nor impressionist.

Ravel's music was innovative, though he did not follow the contemporary trend towards atonality, as pioneered by Schoenberg.

Emerson was adamant that he did not use Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in developing his own version.

Though it was not the best musical piece, the jury praised Ravel's work for its " melodic charm " and " sincerity of dramatic sentiment ".

His first experience of modern music was hearing Ravel's Mother Goose suite at a concert in Leicester conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

Barbirolli was keenly interested in modern music, and he and three colleagues secretly rehearsed Ravel's String Quartet in the privacy of a men's lavatory in the Academy.

That performance was part of a series of " Concerts Monteux ", presented between February and April 1914, in which Monteux conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in a wide range of symphonic and concertante works, including the concert premiere of the orchestral version of Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.

The term was actually loathed by Debussy: " I am trying to do ' something different — in a way realities — what the imbeciles call ' impressionism ' is a term which is as poorly used as possible, particularly by art critics " ( Politoske 1988, 419 )— and Maurice Ravel's music, also often labelled with this term, explores music in many styles not always related to it ( see the discussion on Neoclassicism, below ).

Youmans was forced to retire in 1934, after a professional career of only 13 years, only returning to Broadway to mount the ill-fated extravaganza The Vincent Youmans Ballet Revue ( 1943 ), an ambitious mix of Latin-American and classical music, including Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.

He was attracted by Ravel's approach to orchestration and chord voicings, as well as by " choro ", a Brazilian instrumental popular music featuring various types of guitars.

Perhaps her most lasting contribution to both French music and European ballet was her choreography of Ravel's Boléro in 1928.

A feature every concert was the encore, almost always Ravel's " Boléro " or Goldman's own march composition " On the Mall ," accompanied by the audience singing the theme.

It was used by Richard Strauss in his Sinfonia Domestica, where included in the music are parts for four saxophones, including a soprano saxophone in C. It is also used in Maurice Ravel's " Bolero " and has a featured solo directly following the tenor saxophone's solo.

* 1990: Robert Wendel arranged an instrumental adaptation in the style of Ravel's Boléro which was recorded by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops on the 2006 Telarc Christmas album, Christmas Time Is Here.

The piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques Charlot the same year as it was published ( 1910 ); the first movement of Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin was also dedicated to Charlot's memory after his death in World War I.

each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

The next day he was gone.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.

Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That was the day it ended.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

It was a nice day, granted.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.