53. From the US Ravel kept a close eye on things at home, sending a letter to his brother, from somewhere along the Mississippi, to ask whether he’d done anything about getting a new vacuum cleaner for Montfort. #Ravel150
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54. In Texas, Ravel's 1928 tour produced the memorable headline ‘Reporters Mourn Lack of French as Maurice Ravel Talks about Jazz and US in Native Tongue’. #Ravel150
55. In his mid-50s Ravel was crippled by a rare form of early onset dementia. Weeping after a performance of Daphnis, he told a friend, ‘I’ll never write like that again, but it was good, all the same, it was good’. #Ravel150
58. Ravel was a punishing and sometimes infuriating collaborator, but a generous one; a demanding friend, but intensely loyal; an exacting teacher, who laid down boundaries to watch his students discover how to breach them. #Ravel150
59. Ravel liked to have his own way, his younger brother noted, but he wanted others to agree with him in considering it the best way – ‘otherwise his pleasure was spoiled’. #Ravel150
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