Word: messaien
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...West Church Concert Series. Charles Krigbaum plays works of Lubeck, Couperin, Mendelssohn, Messaien and Bach on the organ at 3:30 p.m. at 131 Cambridge St. in Boston. Student tickets $1.50. Information...
Seth Carlin, pianist, plays Stravinsky, Schubert, Webern and Messaien. Kirkland...
ALSO ON THE program was Messaien's The Blackbird, a work from a later period when he because fascinated by the sound of bird songs. Marilyn Chohaney handled the rhythmically in tricate flute part with disarming ease and received highly sensitive accompaniment from Hugh Wolff...
...century when the greatest composers have struggled to create intellectually satisfying structures. Messaien wrote music which he hoped would "delight the auditory senses with delicate, voluptuous pleasures." His music is sensuous and evocative, with an emotional immediacy painfully lacking in most contemporary music. His naive, naturalistic brand of Catholic mysticism, which in his later years took the form of an obsession with birds, provided him with a focus and an organizing principle for his music that other 20th century composers have lacked. Because he no longer needed to search for self-definition with each work, he felt free to write...
...profound religious devotion pervades all of Messaien's compositions. Through superb craft, he communicates this to us in the most vivid terms. As the music slowly ascends at the sublimely peaceful ending of the Quartet, we are drawn willingly with it toward Messaein's mystic vision...