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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet.(Book Review)
For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. By Rebecca Rischin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. [xi, 167 p. ISBN 0-8014-4136-6. $29.95.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index.
Upon learning of Rebecca Rischin's background as a professional clarinetist, one might be forgiven for assuming that her new book on Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, based on her 1997 D.M.A. essay, (Music for Eternity: a New History of Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time, D.M.A. diss., Florida State University, 1997) is yet another study of the technical innovations for which the piece is now famous. Nearly all such commentaries (Anthony ...
- ENSEMBLE TO PLAY WORKS BY RODRIGUEZ, MESSIAEN
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 29, 2009 700+ words
...performing works by Olivier Messiaen and UT Dallas Professor of Music Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Messiaen's monumental Quartet for the End of Time will be...the ensemble in 2008. "The Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time is one...
- BRAHMS A BAD AFTERTHOUGHT TO WELL-DONE MOZART, MESSIAEN.(Entertainment)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. July 21, 1999 700+ words
...Mozart's lustrous E-flat Piano Quartet (K. 493) was paired with Messiaen's incomparable ``Quartet for the End of Time'' Monday...follow the emotional turmoil of the Messiaen, and his piano quartet is not one of them. The performance...
- Rain Tree Sketch II - In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen, for piano.
- Magazine article from: Notes Boswell, Lilise September 1, 1995 700+ words
...Piece for piano and string quartet is one of the last works Olivier Messiaen wrote before his death on...a pared-down version of Messiaen's musical style that is...almost fragmentary realm, Messiaen exposes different timbres...
- The Life of Messiaen.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Begbie, Jeremy September 9, 2008 700+ words
...predictable." Though Messiaen's output was huge...most of all for the Quartet for the End of Time...theological commentary on Messiaen's works, Dingle leads...which came the famous Quartet), his highly influential...Certain features of Messiaen's personality emerge...
- RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM IN THE MUSIC OF OLIVIER MESSIAEN
- Magazine article from: The American Journal of Semiotics Siglind Bruhn October 1, 1996 700+ words
...the third topic to which Messiaen dedicated his compositional endeavors is bird song: for Messiaen, the experienced ornithologist...s Creation. Here again, Messiaen did not only compose pieces...ever since his 1940-41 Quartet for the End of Time, but particularly...
- Visions of amen: Olivier Messiaen's transcendent music.(Biography)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Hoekema, David A. December 30, 2008 700+ words
...Paris Conservatory as a child, Messiaen was appointed organist at the...attempted or even imagined. Messiaen served as a medical auxiliary...best-known compositions, Quartet for the End of Time, early...workings of the human psyche. For Messiaen, however, music was a way...
- Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes BENITEZ, VINCENT December 1, 1999 700+ words
Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love. Edited...0-8153-2747-1. $57.] Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) attached supreme importance...felt were ultimately inexpressible. For Messiaen, music came closest to communicating...
- The Messiaen Companion.
- Magazine article from: Notes Burbank, Richard D. September 1, 1996 700+ words
...94-2 (pbk.). $24.95.] The Messiaen Companion is the first scholarly study of Olivier Messiaen's music to appear since the composer...figures of the twentieth century, is his [Messiaen's] equal" (p. 1). Arnold Schoenberg...