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Ravel repeats the main theme some 18 times over the course of 15 minutes, starting out very soft, building gradually to fff (triple-forte, very loud) with gongs crashing in the end. This music was featured in the movie "10", starring Bo Derek, Julie Andrews (of 'Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins') and Dudley Moore as "Arthur" (that's my name!). Bolero is actually a spanish dance of a long, drawn-out, repeated pattern, of ancient Spanish-Moorish influence. One can imagine a Torreador (Bullfighter) and his Dame, circling each other in an erotic mating ritual. Bo Derek also starred in a highly erotic movie of the same name, 'Bolero' (filmed by her husband, John Derek), featuring not Ravel's score here, but a very similar one in the same time signature composed just for that film. Ravel calculated this piece to come out to exactly 15 minutes, sparking some controversy because it is timed and structured well to coincide orgasm. Of course, being quite single, and a lover of cats, that wasn't his intent. This is by far his most popular piece, although Ravel himself didn't think too highly of it, even got sick of it after a while. It has been observed that when he wrote this, he was in the advanced stages of mental disease, which took away some of his former musical agility heard in other larger works. But the very droning nature of this piece is also part of what made it so popular, because it "sounds simple", although it is definitely not. This is my electronic orchestra you are hearing…I entered in over 40,000 notes.
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