Word: messiaen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pioneer Arnold Schoenberg an arrested post-Romantic who "discovered the words but never found the proper syntax for them." Just about the only older composers for whom Boulez has a kind word: Schoenberg's late pupil Anton Webern, and France's 49-year-old Organist-Composer Olivier Messiaen, from whom Boulez sought composition instruction after giving Paris' traditionalist Conservatoire the back of his hand ("The composition professors were imbeciles"). From Webern, Boulez derived and refined Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique to its uttermost austerity, and from Messiaen he absorbed an interest in Oriental cultures. Today...
...organ recital by William Sprigg, organist and assistant professor of music at Hood College, Maryland, will conclude the summer school music series on Thursday August 15th. Sprigg will play works by Hindemith, Messiaen and Vaughan-Williams and will also perform his own composition, Sonata number 1. The concert, which will be held in the Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m., is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
...mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
Uphill Fight. I.S.C.M. did that, and more. In its annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...