Messiaen News

Messiaen's Quartet For The End of Time is the appropriate choice of piece for a Remembrance Sunday concert in Sidlesham on November 8. The concert is the next in the Music in the Church season of chamber music in St Mary's Church.

The SOLI Chamber Ensemble, which recently wrapped up its first national tour, doesn't open its hometown concert season until January.

The Stones River Chamber Players, an ensemble-in-residence at MTSU, will open its 2009-2010 season with Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct.

For renowned pianist Jeanne Stark, performing Olivier Messiaen's compositions is more than another recital; it's like visiting an old friend.

Shortly before 10am on September 16, Alan Gilbert quietly wove his way through the New York Philharmonic's musicians, who were assembling on stage for an open rehearsal at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Four world-class musicians who comprise the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present an evening of French music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

The Front Range Chamber Players will open its 25th anniversary season with music for woodwind ensemble, featuring 'Aires Tropicales' by Cuban jazz legend Paquito D'Rivera. The 2009-10 series of concerts begins at 7 p.m. Sunday in the group's new home at St.

The 2009-2010 season of the Friends of Music and the Arts series at Church of the Ascension opens next Sunday, September 20th, with Music Among Friends, A Concert Devoted to Chamber Music .

IT HAS BECOME a ritual: I scan the buzzing black, white, and gold sea that is pre-concert Symphony Hall - as usual, mine is one of maybe five youthful faces in sight.

By 1944, Olivier Messiaen had gained some recognition across his native France as a performer and composer.

A survey of music we don't get to hear live around here -- at least orchestrally speaking -- would have to include the works of Olivier Messiaen.

ROCKPORT : Bay Chamber presents Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" Bay Chamber Concerts will continue its Summer Music Festival at the Rockport Opera House on Thursday, July 9, at 8:00 p.m., "The End of Time" will feature Messiaen's unforgettable "Quartet for the End of Time," in honor of the composer's centennial.

'Quartet for the End of Time' is a 20th-century touchstone, a piece that has become legendary for the circumstances of its premiere perhaps even more than for the ambitious religious program of its composer, Olivier Messiaen. It was completed and first played in 1941, when the composer was interned as a German prisoner of war. It was performed by four musicians -- on clarinet, violin, cello and piano -- thrown together by circumstances, for an audience of fellow captives. To some, this back story can outweigh even the piece's subject: The Catholic Messiaen sought to depict an allegory of the end of time, proclaimed by a terrifying angel surrounded by rainbows and fire.

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Date : Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:43:10 +0500 YEREVAN TO HOST CLASSIC MUSIC CONCERTS /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 06.06.2009 11:34 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ From June 8 to 10, Yerevan will host a series of concerts within "Perspectives XXI" 10th International Music Festival.

Salzburg's New Mozarteum is an impressive building, surprisingly aesthetic for its bulky size and rigorous modernist concrete look.

Today: The Musical Offering's season closer honors oboist Basil Reeve , its co-founder and endlessly inventive programmer, who's hanging up his reeds after 38 years with the group.

Three of the greatest inspirations for the visionary French composer Messiaen were his Roman Catholic faith, birds and Yvonne Loriod, the student who became his second wife.

Marc Geelhoed has a nice roundup of upcoming classical events , including the return of critic and composer Kyle Gann--a former Reader freelancer--to Chicago to lecture on John Cage.

Editor's Note: Karl Paulnack, director of the music division at Boston Conservatory, first gave this speech to parents of students on Sept.