The bantering dialogue in “Botiquín de Boleros de Columbia Heights (Columbia Heights Bolero Bar)” mentions martinis and the caipirinha, the lime-jolted drink that’s an institution in Brazil. The ...

For the past few years, Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas fame has injected new life into the 19th-century bolero. Inspired by the traditional Latin American ballad and psychedelic recordings of the ...

Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense of the word, no development, and hardly any modulation”. And to the Swiss composer Arthur ...