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Copyright expires on Bolero, world's most famous classical crescendo
Business Insider - AFP ^
| 4/30/2016
| Franck Iovene
Posted on 05/02/2016 6:05:35 AM PDT by Borges
Almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright runs out on Sunday on one of the most popular and unique pieces of classical music, Ravel's "Bolero".
"We are accustomed to say that a performance of Bolero begins every 10 minutes in the world. As the work lasts 17 minutes, it is therefore playing at all times somewhere," said Laurent Petitgirard of France's Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (SACEM).
"And it is likely that we will hear it even more now, in advertisements or in films".
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: classicalmusic; copyright
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:05:36 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
How does Disney keep its copyrights going?
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:07:16 AM PDT
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2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Borges
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:08:07 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: 2banana
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:08:10 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: Borges
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:08:37 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Borges
To: 2banana
How does Disney keep its copyrights going?
...
The old fashioned way, lobbyists and bribes.
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:08:52 AM PDT
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Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Larry Lucido
The talented Beck, not the other one.
To: Borges
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:10:30 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: mountn man
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:11:47 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: Borges
I believe it was composed in the late 1920’s. Way too sensual. If porn has music, I bet the porn world is rejoicing at this news.
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:18:30 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
To: Moonman62
“Our lawyers can beat up your lawyers” — a Disney truism
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:19:21 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Larry Lucido
For the untalented one, you mean Glenn, not Jeff, right? I like ‘Bolero Beck’ too!
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:19:51 AM PDT
by
aynrandfreak
(Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
To: Borges
I see many had Cinemax in there youth
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:20:05 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(Ted Cruz's antics show he is playing for 2020 against Hillary)
To: Borges
Interesting backstory: Bolero was written in response to a copyright issue. Ravel was going to write a short ballet score to a melody by Albeniz, but the rights to the melody had been legally given to someone else, and Ravel decided to use his own melody instead in an experiment to see if orchestration alone could propel a composition. (more on the story
here)
On a personal note, my composition professor was Romeo Cascarino, best known for his opera William Penn and his bassoon sonata. He was a disciple of Ravel, and would make me write page after page after page of Ravellian harmonies. I learned two things from him: the wonders of harmony, and that I was not cut out to make my living as a composer, and for both lessons I have been grateful.
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05/02/2016 6:22:00 AM PDT
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chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Buttons12
You’re joking I hope? What do you think of Tristan and Isolde!
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:22:10 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Larry Lucido
First thing to come to mind...
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:23:01 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: 2banana
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:23:45 AM PDT
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Borges
To: 2banana
Sonny Bono, as a senator, had big role in current copyright laws which were extremely favorable to Disney.
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:23:55 AM PDT
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ClearCase_guy
(Democrats are mean-spirited racists who don't care about our children.)
To: Buttons12
Reviews of the debut of Bolero spoke of audience members crushing their programs into sweaty pulp as the sensuous beat propelled them toward its breathless climax.
One reviewer wrote, “If it had gone on for one more measure I would have felt obliged to marry the girl.”
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posted on
05/02/2016 6:25:57 AM PDT
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elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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