Word: messiaen
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While preparing a series of concerts devoted to the thorny yet passionately spiritual music of the late Olivier Messiaen, Nagano sent the French composer a tape -- and got back a detailed written critique, enumerating what he had done right and wrong. The correspondence eventually led to Messiaen's arrival in Berkeley for a performance of The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to Nagano's participation in the 1983 world premiere in Paris of Messiaen's radiant opera St. Francis of Assisi. Eight years later, he led the controversial world premiere of composer John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer...
Longy School of Music. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. 876-0956, ext. 120. Faculty member Sally Pinkas and Evan Hirsch, duo pianists, present Visions de L'Amen by Messiaen on Monday, May 1 at 8 p.m. Longy Chamber Orchestra perform at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2. Longy faculty member Jocelyn Lopatin, piano, presents a concert of Works by Bach, Beethoven and Liszt on Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m. All concerts are free...
...march music, while, less officially, prisoners smuggled in instruments and put on private musicales. In "model" camps such as Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Bohemia, the inmates were even encouraged to perform for visiting Red Cross workers to show that they were being treated humanely. The late French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote one of this century's most illuminating chamber works, the Quartet for the End of Time, while incarcerated in a Silesian camp. Messiaen survived. But for most victims time was something that indeed came...
...glamour; instead, the conductor he most resembles is his hero Pierre Boulez, guiding his players through the most intricate rhythms with unflappable aplomb. In 1985 Salonen signed an exclusive contract with CBS, now Sony Classical, and since then has issued a steady stream of albums (the best so far: Messiaen's formidable Turangalila-Symphonie and Grieg's Peer Gynt music). Already he is one of the few living maestros who can sell the standard repertoire on the strength of his name alone...
...MUSIC Messiaen's powerful Turangalila is recorded anew...