On a bitterly cold night in January 1941, French composer Olivier Messiaen debuted a new work. It was an unusual premiere. Messiaen’s audience was an assembly of war prisoners and their guards. The ...

The composer George Benjamin and the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard met as students. In a new piece, they perform at the keyboard together. By Joshua Barone Loriod, the vessel for Olivier Messiaen’s ...

The dot dot dot that Olivier Messiaen placed at the end of the title for his monument to Utah’s national parks, “Des Canyons aux Étoiles …” (From the Canyons to the Stars …), clearly implies something ...

On Dec. 16, pianist Daniel Parker plays a recital at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that, even as the winter solstice approaches, sneaks in a robin of spring — in the guise of Olivier ...

There can be little doubt that Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is the most profoundly theological composer of the 20th century. Virtually all his pieces bear some form of explicit Christian intent or ...

The past and present are not distinct worlds - they bleed constantly into one another - but it can sometimes take a chance confluence of the two to remind us of that fact. One such meeting is due next ...

Clockwise from top left: Dmitry Kouzov; Ilya Kaler; Julian Milkis; Yana Reznik. To mark the 75th anniversary of its poignant wartime premiere, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time will be ...

Berkeley photographer Deborah O’Grady has a picture in her studio of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, a Catholic mystic who transcribed bird songs and associated musical sounds with visual colors ...

Tonight’s concert is CANCELED due to weather. Harawi: Songs of Love and Death was pre-recorded this afternoon and can be viewed on YouTube at: bit.ly… Katherine Saik DeLugan and Albert Cano Smit ...

The tension between sacred and profane has held our collective attention long before the latest crop of religious extremists began committing acts of violence in the name of God in the streets of ...

One of the most esteemed singers of his era, he had a wide repertoire that included Mozart, Wagner and the title role in Messiaen’s epic “St. François d’Assise.” By Jonathan Kandell The composer ...

Five years in the planning, this festival of art, spanning the West Coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego, involves 70 exhibits by more than 800 artists and a range of material that puts multimedia in ...