Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

In my freshman year of high school, my piano teacher, an ebullient, shrewd Japanese woman, plopped down a thick manuscript on the desk before me. “This,” she said, with a devilish glint in her eye, ...