{"id":4638,"date":"2016-04-13T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:09:49","slug":"my-tempo-must-be-followed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4638","title":{"rendered":"My tempo must be followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel was very particular about how his works were performed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Ravel always insisted that the tempo for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bol\u00e9<\/span>ro should be moderate and rigorously maintained throughout. \u00a0He made a recording of that, too establishing his requirement. \u00a0Toscanini took it much faster and made an <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">accelerando<\/span> towards the end. \u00a0Ravel, who was in the audience, objected. \u00a0He refused to shake hands with the famous conductor, saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s not my tempo&#8221;, to which Toscanini retorted coolly: &#8220;When I play your tempo the piece is ineffective.&#8221; &#8220;Then don&#8217;t play!&#8221; was Ravel&#8217;s tart and uncompromising riposte. \u00a0There some reconciliation later; but from then on Toscanini avoided <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bol\u00e9ro.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>James, Burnett (1983) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ravel: his life and times.<\/span> New York: Hippocrene Books, p.128.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel was very particular about how his works were performed.\u00a0 Ravel always insisted that the tempo for Bol\u00e9ro should be moderate and rigorously maintained throughout. \u00a0He made a recording of that, too establishing his requirement. \u00a0Toscanini took it much faster and made an accelerando towards the end. \u00a0Ravel, who was in the audience, objected. \u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[587,586,1137],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works","tag-bolera","tag-ravel","tag-toscanini"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}