Word: messiaen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century repertory will be offered in symphonic and chamber music programs. Also on the schedule is a series of musical films, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Von Karajan, A Homage to Edgar Varèse, and a feature on avant-garde Composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen...
...from the symphonies of Mahler (beginning in 1885) to the symphony of Webern (c1923) the architecture, sonorities, and phychology of music were recreated. The only significant development since then have been Edgar Varese's employment of the daily persuasiveness of the city as part of his musical material; Olivier Messiaen's elegant experiments in multiple asymmetrical rhythms; and John Cage's interpretation of Webern's principle of the "music of silence" to mean that music fundamentally consists of random sounds within a formal background of silence. Schoenberg stated his fecund principle in 1932 as follows...
...working on the Bach Cello Suites ("the most perfect music ever written.") His art on the cello is well documented in "As You Said" on the last album. He may have the most extraordinary taste of any rock musician. "My favorite of the contemporary composers is Olivier Messiaen. I have this tape of the Turangalila Symphony that I made off a radio broadcast and I keep returning to it. It's great music. I went to some of his (Messiaen's) lectures in Brighton. He's very much underrated...
...finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
...list is admirable in its division of attention between the gurus of the contemporary styles and their still-emerging disciples. It includes such cornerstone composers as the French mystic Olivier Messiaen and American Serialist Statesman Milton Babbitt, plus a smattering of tiny, wispy recent Stravinsky pieces, as well as chamber works by Aaron Copland, some recently discovered early pieces by Anton Webern, performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra...