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• Don’t play any of that modern crap!

  
  Mitigating Calumny — Authority: 97
  Music has always been a passion of mine. How music and culture intersect is fascinating. How mainstream culture deals with serious innovation and creativity is even more fascinating. To wit: it amazes me that after a hundred years or so Modernism is still reviled; this, of course, spans the arts, but for our ...
  1 week ago

• Messiaen and his birds: the best animal species to inspire music?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 610
  Theres a wonderful passage in The Rest is Noise, Alex Rosss must-read history of 20th century classical music, about Oliver Messiaen and his use of bird song. The French composer was apparently instructed by his teacker Dukas to "listen to the birds". So stoked an obsession and almost spiritual reverance in Messiaen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Olivier Messiaen part of the Vichy myth?

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 411
  The relationship betwen music and totalitarian regimes is a recurring theme On An Overgrown Path and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France has featured in a number of these paths . Until recently what had really happened in Vichy France during the Second World War was obscured by assiduously cultivated ...
  3 weeks ago

• The radio is alive with the sound of Jolivets music

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 411
  In 1936 La Jeune France group was formed by the composers seen in the photo above, clockwise from top left Olivier Messiaen, Yves Baudrier , Daniel-Lesur with André Jolivet seated at piano. Messiaens reputation has endured while the other three languish in obscurity. Which is a pity as the music of André ...
  4 weeks ago

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