Ravel's Bolero[the theme to the film"10"]-dig it?

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who here on WP really likes Ravel's Bolero? [you know, the theme to the movie "10" ]
ravel himself didn't particularly care for it, referring to it as "a melody in search of an idea."
i can tolerate it if i think of it as a musical emulation of a snake slithering through the grass in pursuit of a yummy rat to swallow whole.

Its is kind of a long piece that seems a little repetitious, I did love hearing in an Italian animation Allegro non troppo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_Non_Troppo

It's okay. However my two favourite composers are Igor Stravinsky and Camille Saint Saens.

I like it. I have heard it played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (the best in Australia) and I think it works well as the longest, slowest crescendo out there. I like the gradual addition of instruments and the building volume which shows off many different aspects of the orchestra.

Anyway, I heard Bolero long before the movie 10 came out, so it is not entirely associated with that film in my mind.

yeah, i really dig Bolero. i have a few recordings of it floating around my apartment. It's pretty typical of my music tastes - i like hypnotic, repetitious music a lot of the time. Other pieces in the same vein i like include Philip Glass' Music for 18 Musicians, Terry Riley's In C, and Steve Reich's Four Organs or New York Counterpoint.

I haven't thought of Allegro Non Troppo in years. i have copy of that on VHS somewhere... Man, that's a strange and funny movies. sort of like a low-budget Fantasia, but on drugs.

Hey Luke, sorry to be pedantic, but Music for 18 Musicians is actually by Steve Reich.

I remember it as 'makeout music' from the 70s (Partridge Family...ain't that lame?... It's ok, but it's something that should have long intervals between repeats...

well there goes my cred. of course you're right. Substituted Steve Reich for Philip Glass, mentally. As for Philip Glass, i like his soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi.

-L.

I have liked since I was a kid, but it sort of puts me in a trance. I think that was what I liked about it in the first place though- like a non drug-induced trip.

I like it.

Heh. I just couldn't let the error go by... you have good taste for an NT

Guess I'm the only one who hates it. It makes me want to scream. It moves into your head, uses all your toothpaste, and won't take the hint to get out. It could continue to feed on your musical sense of enjoyment through an entire Beethoven symphony and be seen picking it's teeth with the final note... But I'm getting a bit nuts. I do find it very annoying.

interesting observation- in this way it has a lot in common with indian minimalist music.

Saw an animation video of this years ago. Sort of an mc escherish people climbing endless stairs sort of thing. Seemed to fit.

I did see that, and it did fit, I admit... the staircase never ended that I can recall. Interesting film, though.

I'm sorry Aunt Blabby but how I feel isn't represented. It's okay. I hope this can count for my vote.

Love, Taupey