A performing art dedicated to the newest and boldest, like modern dance, rarely dwells in its past. There's something a bit odd about maintaining dance's certifiable classics in the active repertoire.

The great cellist Pablo Casals gave the second-best description of the cello. "The cello," he said, "is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time, more slender, more supple, ...

Ravel was a master of orchestration, as is borne out by his ever popular arrangement of Mussorgsky’s famous set of piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition. But as his Pavane pour une infante défunte ...

You probably know Maurice Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" best in its orchestral version. But Ravel originally wrote it for solo piano. And that's the rendition we'll hear in concert, performed ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Saturday's soloist at the Seattle Symphony's opening-night concert, appeared to enjoy himself as much as the audience did. He performed Faure's gentle Elegie for cello and later ...

Apres Un Reve (After the Dream); Emily; Speak Low; Estate; A Time for Love; Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess); I Loves You Porgy; Oblivion (How to Say Goodbye); Pavane; ...

Ravel's beautiful Pavane For A Dead Princess touches many people. While it is not actually about a dead princess it does evoke a sense loss. For Carla van Raay it symbolises the loss of innocence she ...