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 ...

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 ...

Olivier Messiaen played a leading role in the evolution of 20th-century music. In this classic interview, the late composer talks on topics such as his love of nature and his fervent Christian ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among ... which had the express intention of promoting modern French music. He joined ...

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine continues its 2020-2021 season of Great Music in a Great Space ... who will perform Olivier Messiaen's Apparition de l'Eìglise eìternelle and La Nativiteì ...