New Year's Concert: Bolero

A New Year marked by dance and joy, with The Firebird , a Russian tale commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos , inspired by Mozart, the gamelan and the spirit of the music hall, and Le tombeau de Couperin , a symphonic gem taken from a piano cycle that Ravel composed in the tradition of French dance suites. And to complete the celebration, the most famous crescendo in the history of music, based on ...