Seriously, I immediately think of Bolero when I hear Maurice Ravel’s name, don’t you?! And then I immediately think of when Jayne Torvill and her skating partner Christopher Dean skated to it at the 1984 Winter Olympics…receiving a perfect score! Very neat!
Of course, there’s more to Maurice than composing a kick-awesome song to […]

Our composer of the week is French composer, George Bizet.

I remember a time in high school when I spent hours practicing my “prepared piece” for Solo and Ensemble competition. I played the flute and that particular year the prepared piece was Bizet’s Entr’acte from Carmen. I loved it then and I still love […]

Our composer this week is Camille Saint-Saens…a French composer of the Romantic period. He was an accomplished pianist and even completed the writing of his first symphony by age 16! Most of his most famous works were not even published until after his death in 1921. He felt that the pieces that […]