In the Basque Country, the Ravel Festival celebrates the local boy by focusing on creation

It is not so long ago that the Apaches, gathered around Maurice Ravel , would take to the streets of Saint-Jean-de-Luz every summer. Breathing into the Basque coast, to the sound of their rallying cry (the opening theme of Borodin's Symphony ^No. 2 , which they whistled among themselves), their "new wave" of modernity. The circle, which included, among other personalities, Léon-Paul Fargue, André Caplet, Manuel De Falla, Ricardo Vines and Stravinsky , had set itself the mission of supporting the young musical and literary creation of its time. It was dissolved at the dawn of the First World War, but its spirit still inhabits the famous Labourdine houses, with their whitewashed facades and colorful wooden half-timbering - recognizable among a thousand - of the old port of Saint-Jean and Ciboure... As well as of the Luzien hinterland.

For less than a week now, the corsair city has been the scene of a new creative ferment. Under the leadership of their elder…