CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Maurice Ravel visited Northeast Ohio in 1928, not everything went according to plan. The French composer had a reputation for being far more brilliant on paper than in person.

Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed the direction of French music in the early 20th century, leading to the ...

Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky. But, this season, he’s brought some smaller-scale works to the stage. For his first epic piece for orchestra, choir and vocal soloists, he avoided grandiosity ...