Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Danny Jin warms up on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, before a concert. Jin will be among a ...

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra played Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” Sunday at UChicago’s Mandel ...

Soprano Julia Bullock, while a conservatory student, was struck by the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen. Upon ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, a vast, 10-movement work for an orchestra so large that there almost wasn’t room for the augmented, percussion-laden forces even in the ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Poet Michael Symmons Roberts gets to the heart of composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong in this imaginative sonic trip through drama, music and poetry. Show more Poet Michael Symmons ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

It performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics and has recorded pieces by famed composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez and Dmitri Shostakovich. BY SHIN MIN-HEE [[email protected]] ...

Exotic birds chirp their hearts out in Olivier Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques, which he describes as “almost a piano concerto”. It was commissioned by Pierre Boulez, one of his students at the Paris ...