{"id":38605,"date":"2023-01-22T19:11:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38605"},"modified":"2023-01-22T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:16:25","slug":"the-bolero-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/22\/the-bolero-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bolero (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of the 1973 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action), Bill Fertik\u2019s film essay offers a consideration of Maurice Ravel\u2019s masterwork via a performance of the piece by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.<\/p>\n

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The first part of this 25-minute film provides a view of stagehands setting up the music stands and chairs for the philharmonic members in a studio where the piece will be performed. Conductor Zubin Mehta and the musicians \u2013 none of whom are identified on screen by name \u2013 offer their views on the complexity of the overall composition and the instrumental solos that spice its sensual melodies.<\/p>\n

The second part of the film finds the camera tracking throughout the musicians\u2019 set-up, with pauses on individual performers for their solo work. Mehta is mostly absent until the fiery climax, where he is captured in an exuberant conducting of the work\u2019s passion-invoking ending.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bolero\u201d had been a staple of the educational film market during the halcyon days of the 16mm market. Today, the film can be viewed on Vimeo (Sorry, folks, but we can’t embed the video on this page — but you can view it at this link<\/a>.) Whether this is work is truly deserving of its Oscar can be debated \u2013 while the performance itself is wonderful, the film gives no history of \u201cBolero\u201d and barely mentions Ravel or where the work fits into his canon, an omission that is difficult to comprehend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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