Trying to find a source a Ravel; Ravel -did- try to organize a concert in Paris with works by Delage, Stravinsky, Ravel (Mallarmé poems) and Schoenberg (Pierrot) which fell apart.
I didn't know that Ravel had made comments about those works of Schoenberg although I knew that Puccini had attended a performance of Pierrot Lunaire and made complimentary remarks about it.
As for making assumptions....assumptions about what ?
To be clear, I was paraphrasing Calum McDonald writing about Havergal Brian- not a Havergal Brian paraphrase per se.
Schoenberg’s tonal (first) chamber symphony, allegedly, found Ravel a very unenthusiastic audience, whereas years later Maurice R (and Puccini, too) enjoyed Pierrot Lunaire a fair amount. Let’s not make assumptions…
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