Word: messiaen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boules is a former pupil of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire...
...says, "music is just a museum.") The "Proms would not be Proms," Clock is convinced, unless they included most of the symphonies of Beethoven, the four Brahms symphonies, the last three of Tchaikovsky. But along with those staples, Clock demands the music of such well-known modernists as Oliver Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, and has commissioned works by men that many of the Prom audiences have never heard of (this summer's commission composers: Alan Rawsthorne, Thea Musgrave, Nicholas Maugh, Peter Maxwell-Davies...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A program of Christmas music seldom heard, including selections by Poulenc, Messiaen, Foss, Handel, Bach and Britten...