CDs or Vinyl?

boltonbonce wrote:
Bolero is to music, what a revolving bow tie is to comedy.

“There is a definite limit to the length of time a composer can go on writing in one dance rhythm (this limit is obviously reached by Ravel towards the end of La valse and towards the beginning of Boléro).”


Constant Lambert.

I first heard it in 1973 in a bar in Famagusta, whilst watching a Turkish belly dancer. Her music was far more interesting than her dancing. It reminded me of the films of that era where there were lots of marching Roman soldiers. I was a little disappointed to find out it was the marching of the Toreadors instead.

gloswhite wrote:
I first heard it in 1973 in a bar in Famagusta, whilst watching a Turkish belly dancer. Her music was far more interesting than her dancing. It reminded me of the films of that era where there were lots of marching Roman soldiers. I was a little disappointed to find out it was the marching of the Toreadors instead.

I've got no room to talk anyway, being a devotee of Thelonious Monk. My dad always insisted it was Les Dawson.

Sluffy, that's just cruel. I need a bowl of soup.