Question
Ricardo Viñes (“VEEN-yess”) is the dedicatee of the “Sad Birds” movement of a piano suite by this composer whose movements are each dedicated to a different member of Les Apaches (“lay zah-PAHSH”). For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this composer of Miroirs (“meer-WAHR”) who abandoned work on orchestrations of Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia suite to compose Boléro.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel
[10h] The painter Paul Sordes (“sord”), who was called a “Ravel of the palette” by Les Apaches member Tristan Klingsor, was the dedicatee of this third movement of Ravel’s Miroirs. This movement is known for its lush arpeggios imitating sea currents.
ANSWER: “Une barque sur l’océan” (“oon bark soor lo-say-AWN”) [accept “A Boat on the Ocean”]
[10m] Viñes premiered Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit (“gas-PARR duh la NWEE”), whose third movement was written to be more difficult than this “Oriental Fantasy” for piano by Mily Balakirev.
ANSWER: Islamey [or Islamey: Oriental Fantasy]
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