When I came across Boléro among the LPs in my parents' record collection, I put it on the turntable. It hit me like a neural thunderstorm, titanic and glorious, each cycle building to a climax ...

(Celia García is 16 years old herself. Laura García is 17.) "It's a genre that we heard since we were in my mother's womb," Celia says. "This region has always been known to be very romantic.

Iconic artists like Daniel Santos, Agustín Lara and Javier Solís are considered to be pioneers of the beautiful bolero music that originated in Cuba and popularized in Mexico in the early 1900s ...

A madman!” (to which the composer responded “She’s understood the piece.”). That Ravel himself called it “my only masterpiece” in correspondence to Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, before lamenting ...

An intriguing email popped up on my laptop last January from Stanford Live regarding a casting call for community “civilian” performers for Bolero Silicon Valley. To celebrate Stanford’s ...

So she celebrated with an old bolero standard, Me Faltabas Tu. “I sing it a cappella, I sing it with a tumba (drum), but always my bolero,” she says at her home, because “it is the music ...