The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution.
This year’s festival will transport audiences to enchanted realms, where fairy tales, legends, and epic sagas come to life ...
The Chatterton-McCright Duo (Linda Chatterton on flute, and Matthew McCright on piano) will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. at ...
However, the music from the deepest part of me, perhaps the deepest part of us, is different.” Starting from country music and getting to Olivier Messiaen, the French composer, organist, and ...
I am known as one of the foremost experts on the music of Olivier Messiaen, as well as being one of the finest British pianists of my generation. My complete Messiaen cycle has been described as ‘one ...
In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...
Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, ...
While in the French capital, his teachers included musical greats like Rene Leibowitz and Olivier Messiaen, who had furthered the ideas of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern — both considered ...
The Chatterton-McCright Duo (Linda Chatterton on flute, and Matthew McCright on piano) will perform a concert at University of Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday. The program includes works by JS Bach, ...
Presented by Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore and inspired by the centenaries of both Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, 20th Century Radicals is a groundbreaking new Radio 3 series, celebrating a ...