Posted on 05/02/2016 6:05:35 AM PDT by Borges
Almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright runs out on Sunday on one of the most popular and unique pieces of classical music, Ravel's "Bolero".
"We are accustomed to say that a performance of Bolero begins every 10 minutes in the world. As the work lasts 17 minutes, it is therefore playing at all times somewhere," said Laurent Petitgirard of France's Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (SACEM).
"And it is likely that we will hear it even more now, in advertisements or in films".
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This was done on purpose. It is a piece that builds upon itself as it goes along. Each time around, you add more texture. I think it is masterfully done.
Recently discovered Lucia Micarelli.
She does a smooth Jazz song with Chris Botti. Almost brings tears to your eyes. Wish I could find more classically oriented stuff by her.
CHRIS BOTTI IN BOSTON | "Emmanuel" w/ Lucia Micarelli | PBS-Youtube
Heh, heh!
My favorite quote is his response to a tourist in need of directions. The tourist asked, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”
Toscanini replied, “Practice!”
And it’s been pointed out that that statement is a fallacy!
Carnegie Hall is a ‘For Rent’ establishment. Anyone can perform there if their check clears.
Is it possible that Il Maestro was making a joke?
What performing artist rents a concert hall? If he’s an unknown talent, that’s taking a big chance that ticket sales will cover the rent.
Usually, an impresario notices their talent & adds them to the playbill. Getting noticed is what requires practice.
LOL.
Nope. You can rent the hall.
Maybe not. Remember that after years out of copyright, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927) was recently put back in copyright by treaty.
“The film’s U.S. copyright was restored in 1996 by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and, as Golan v. Holder, it was ruled that “In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain. Removing works from the public domain violated Plaintiffs’ vested First Amendment interests.”
“This only applied to the rights of so-called reliance parties, i.e. parties who had previously relied on the public domain status of restored works. The case was overturned on appeal to the Tenth Circuit, and that decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on 18 January 2012. This had the effect of restoring the copyright in the work as of 1 January 1996.
“Though it will remain copyrighted in Germany until 2046, 70 years after Fritz Lang’s death, under current U.S. copyright law it will be copyrighted there only through 31 December 2022 due to the rule of the shorter term as implemented in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act; the U.S. copyright limit for films of its age is 95 years from publication per the Copyright Term Extension Act.”
Libestod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7OFiJCv9SU
Doesn't take any imagination to realize what Wagner had on his mind when he composed this piece.
The most erotic music ever written.
Absolutely.
I think the neatest presentation of Bolero ever was as a soundtrack for a segment of an animated Italian feature length film, “Allegro Non Troppo” by cartoonist Bruno Bozzetto in 1976. The music accompanies a comic look at evolution. The animators must have been on drugs, the visuals are great! The movie was a tongue-in-cheek parody of Disney’s Fantasia, and I highly recommend it.
About the only White girl on the planet who looked good in cornrows.
Every young man’s fantasy in 1979.
And today, Bo Derek is a conservative Republican.
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