As some of you know, I like music across the board, from hard-rock to disco and classical music. Regarding the latter, I do like to watch videos of Ravel's Boléro, the flash mobs. I can see what is going on and hear it, but never got the dots connected of what was really going on, until I found this gem yesterday:
The conductor looks like a hobo taken from the street just minutes before, having to surrender his vodka bottle, but was allowed to keep his toothpick. And they found him a cheap, too small, white tie suite.
And that toothpick was the giveaway: Begin small, very small, and build it up (more instruments, louder, not faster). While maintaining the same rhythm.
In the end Ravel choose to go out with a bang. I would have prefered to revert back to the quietness.
