Bird calls and Hindu rhythms, chaos and tunefulness, Hollywood harmonies and modes of limited transposition the music of Olivier Messiaen embraces such disparate elements in the service of expressing ...

Olivier Messiaen played a leading role in the evolution of 20thcentury music In this classic interview the late composer talks on topics such as his love of nature and his fervent Christian faith two ...

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 ...

Harawi realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in a newly physicalized and dramatized dimension featuring AMOC* Company members soprano Julia Bullock, ...

In 1978, Olivier Messiaen visited Northeast Ohio for a series of concerts at the Cleveland Museum of Art and elsewhere celebrating his birthday. Messiaen had turned 70 that year, and by then, the ...

Here's my review of the first of three Messiaen tribute concerts last weekend. FYI, pianist Jeffrey Payne will play the entire "Vingt Regards" on Nov. 2. On the first of three concerts celebrating the ...

Paris was not burning in August 1944, but the threat was very real. With the French public at the breaking point after more than four years under Nazi rule, the resistance in open rebellion and ...

at Reed College over the weekend with a mix of excitement and dread. Critics are never supposed to admit that some music is challenging for their seasoned ears, but even specialists concede 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 ...

Olivier Messiaen: Harawi presents a captivating realization of his hour-long song cycle for voice and piano, featuring AMOC Company members soprano Julia Bullock and pianist Conor Hanick, alongside ...