On a bitterly cold night in January 1941, French composer Olivier Messiaen debuted a new work. It was an unusual premiere. Messiaen’s audience was an assembly of war prisoners and their guards. The ...
When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992 at age 83, there was no doubt that he was a major figure of 20th century music, a great French composer and an important link between Ravel and Pierre Boulez. But ...
Olivier Messiaen’s ‘colossal saga’ enjoys a personal but unsentimental performance that ranges from ferocity to exquisite colour For what is unquestionably one of the great landmarks in 20th-century ...
The dot dot dot that Olivier Messiaen placed at the end of the title for his monument to Utah’s national parks, “Des Canyons aux Étoiles …” (From the Canyons to the Stars …), clearly implies something ...
The life and work of the French composer Olivier Messiaen continue to fascinate. A mystic Catholic who sought inspiration from birdsong, vast empty canyons, stained-glass windows and his own ...
There is nothing else in serious music quite like Olivier Messiaen`s strange and wonderful ”Turangalila-symphonie.” If you choose to regard Wagner`s ”Tristan und Isolde” as the greatest love song ...
Berkeley photographer Deborah O’Grady has a picture in her studio of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, a Catholic mystic who transcribed bird songs and associated musical sounds with visual colors ...
Paris was not burning in August 1944, but the threat was very real. With the French public at the breaking point after more than four years under Nazi rule, the resistance in open rebellion and ...
Other students in their mid-20s may be spending their spring breaks hoisting Bohemias on a beach in Baja. Not Paul Jacobs. This weekend, you will find the 25-year-old Yalie ensconced in Grace ...
Conductors, like most music lovers, keep discovering music that is new to them. My own latest discovery is the Turangalîla-Symphonie, a mind-blowing 75-minute orchestral piece by Olivier Messiaen, ...
Like most arts groups, Piano Spheres got through a performance-free pandemic the best it could on Zoom. But after the initial video-vérité fascination of peeking into pianists’ living or practice ...
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