Dan Margolies has been a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, and KCUR Public Radio. He retired as a reporter in December 2022 after a 37-year journalism career.

Symphoria’s Music Director, Lawrence Loh, will conduct a Feb. 19 concert featuring the music of three composers who were contemporaries, born within a three-year span from 1873 to 1875: Samuel ...

Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...

At his last performance with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, American conductor John Nelson directed a memorable Brahms Symphony No. 1 - full of warmth and with sweeping lyricism. Last Friday ...

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Ravel’s greatest significance was in establishing, with Debussy, a distinct French school of music, ridding it of Wagnerian influence. One of the greatest orchestrators in musical history, he put it ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Maurice Ravel visited Northeast Ohio in 1928, not everything went according to plan. The French composer had a reputation for being far more brilliant on paper than in person.

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Perfection, c’est travail, said Maurice Ravel. Pride in his own small and perfectly formed achievement, and a conviction that perfection is a supreme quality of art, lie behind those three words. But ...

Regarded alongside Debussy as the leading French composer of his time, Maurice Ravel was a master of his craft, weaving a child-like wonder and nostalgia for the past into music of exquisite charm and ...