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 ...

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

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual ... called ‘La Jeune France’, which had the ...

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 ...

Olivier Latry regards himself as an ambassador for French organ repertoire which has been demonstrated not least by his devotion to the music of Olivier Messiaen and in 2002, to mark the tenth ...

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

Traditionally, the programmes of UK orchestras have focused on a narrow group of 20th-century French composers indicating a line of development from Debussy and Ravel to Messiaen and Boulez. Dr ...

Soprano Julia Bullock, while a conservatory student, was struck by the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen. Upon hearing one piece in his song cycle, “Chants de Terre et de Ciel ...

Organist, pianist, composer, and visionary, Messiaen wrote music of vivid color and intense contrasts, ranging from delirious joy to profound stillness. La Nativiteì tells the Christmas story ...