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Messiaen: Illuminations of Eternity |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Tom Pniewski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 3,203 Words, 20,072 Characters |
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One of the most startlingly original composers of our time, Olivier Messiaen was both in and beyond the Western musical tradition. He found much of his inspiration in the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, which he served as organist for most of his life, yet the range of influences that helped shape his music was remarkably broad: ancient Greece and India, birdsong throughout the world, the passion of human love, landscapes as disparate as southern France and southern Utah. And it was his achievement to craft from these sources a personal language and body of work that contains intense emotional appeal and colorful fascination for any open-minded listener.
At his death last April, Messiaen left a body of some forty major works, dominated by a dozen large-scaled orchestral pieces...
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...ilharmonic through the rhythmic intricacies of ?lairs, appended this program note: "This final movement is the outcome of the whole of Life. The page is turned, the earth already far, time is no more; it is a continuous present of never-ending bliss." For a composer who perceived bliss as truth, and who sought to convey that truth to his listeners through his music, it is a glorious epitaph.
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