Welp I& #39;m on the record now: I love Boléro, fuck the haters, Ravel knew exactly what he was doing https://twitter.com/vanmusicmag/status/1387848625083011078">https://twitter.com/vanmusicm...

The most eye-rolling Boléro criticism I see is "Ravel himself hated it!" ClassicFM clickbait bullshit. Ravel& #39;s tongue-in-cheek self deprecation was always along the lines of "I know I broke the rules of & #39;good music& #39; and IDGAF." If you think that means he hated it, you& #39;re an idiot

Every journalist and critic that peddles the "Ravel hated Boléro" line is lazy and has never read his quotes in context. There& #39;s even a pernicious rumor that Ravel "disowned" or "withdrew" it, which like ... please provide me any evidence whatsoever of that, I dare you

Something I didn& #39;t get into in this essay because it would have been even longer: when Ravel discovered he couldn& #39;t immediate secure the rights to orchestrate Iberia, he pronounced copyright "stupid" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen"> Pretty sure he and I would have gotten along pretty well.

Ironically, when Ravel died in 1937 without children, Boléro became one of the best examples of how greedy vampiric estates have turned copyright into a bloated monster that stifles creativity and art https://interlude.hk/composers-in-the-court-roomravels-bolero/">https://interlude.hk/composers...