When the Sarasota Orchestra performs Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” at its next Masterworks concert, principal percussionist Marcelina Suchocka will be getting herself into a zone. For nearly 15 straight ...

“Bolero” by Maurice Ravel is a significant work for orchestra. It was originally written as the score for a ballet. The constant rhythmic pattern throughout the work is a dance rhythm in triple meter.

One afternoon in the middle of a summer many years ago, when I was working as a record clerk in the Tower Records Classical Annex on the Sunset Strip, a rather extraordinary-looking woman walked into ...