Cal Performances presents American Modern Opera Company in the U.S. premiere of its production of Olivier Messiaen’s “Harawi” ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went one step further than them all by having his own field recordings of birds star as the solo instrument in his 1972 piece “Cantus Arcticus: Concerto ...

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M usic by Olivier Messiaen and George Frideric Handel, a new stage work by South African artist William Kentridge and the debut of the Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo are planned to contribute ...

Elsewhere, Jacques' legacy lives on through his 1928 volume "Why Birds Sing" and his influence on French composer Olivier Messiaen, who regularly incorporated birdsong into his work. The bottling ...

It performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics and has recorded pieces by famed composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez ...