Jeff Beck is the ultimate electric lead guitar hero, and Jimmy Page is rock’s ultimate acoustic-electric songsmith. “Beck’s Bolero,” from the Jeff Beck Group’s 1968 release Truth, pits them side by ...

A thing of beauty, as we learned in high school English class, is a joy forever. For veteran jazz bass player Charlie Haden, that thing is the bolero music of Cuba. "When I was organizing the ...

One afternoon in the middle of a summer many years ago, when I was working as a record clerk in the Tower Records Classical Annex on the Sunset Strip, a rather extraordinary-looking woman walked into ...

A thing of beauty, as we learned in high-school English class, is a joy forever. For veteran jazz bass player Charlie Haden, that thing is the bolero music of Cuba. "When I was organizing the ...

“Bolero” by Maurice Ravel is a significant work for orchestra. It was originally written as the score for a ballet. The constant rhythmic pattern throughout the work is a dance rhythm in triple meter.

, preceded by several other great orchestral works. In keeping with the women composers theme, the program will begin with Gabriela Lena Frank’s Three Latin American Dances . The program also ...