From Fred Flaxman
| Part of the Compact Discoveries series
| 00:57:56
Producers: Fred Flaxman

This is an almost total remake of a program originally distributed nationally in 2003 by the WFMT Radio Network. All except the opening announcement have been re-recorded. The script is esentially the same, as is the music presented. The underwriting credit at the end of the program has been changed.
Program 30
"Ravel: The Composer as Pianist and Conductor"
MUSIC: Ravel playing his Pavane pour une infante d?funte [Pierian 0013, track 12] [under the following]
FLAXMAN: You are listening to a miracle. What else would you call it when the composer of this piano piece, Maurice Ravel, who died in 1937, comes back to life and plays his piece for you in full stereo sound in your living room, bedroom or automobile!
Hello, I?m Fred Flaxman, this is Compact Discoveries, and you are going to hear nothing but miracles for the next hour as we listen together to "Maurice Ravel: The Composer as Pianist and Conductor."
MUSIC: fades out.
FLAXMAN: Fortunately for us, the lifetime of Maurice Ravel paralleled the birth of the phonograph and the earliest developments in the recording industry. And as further luck would have it, all the solo piano recordings he made playing his own c...
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