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Offline communist

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happy birthday Messiaen
on: December 10, 2008, 01:48:46 PM
 :D
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 08:42:52 PM
Seconded! And a happy birthday 1 day in advance to Elliott Carter!

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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 11:37:59 PM
happy birthday to a great composer.
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 12:35:23 AM
Time to listen to the Turangalila once again!  Oh no, I lent it to my piano teacher, who has yet to return it.
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #4 on: December 11, 2008, 03:14:30 AM
Cheers  ;D
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #5 on: December 13, 2008, 04:29:40 AM
Messiaen and Carter were born a day apart...very cool. Something more should be made of what would have been Messiaen's 100th!

Time to listen to the Turangalila once again!  Oh no, I lent it to my piano teacher, who has yet to return it.

Oh Sharon, I have 20 recordings of Turangalila...have one of mine!
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #6 on: December 13, 2008, 08:51:49 AM
Messiaen and Carter were born a day apart...very cool. Something more should be made of what would have been Messiaen's 100th!

Agreed. Messiaen only got 2 minutes of a prelude on Wednesday on the local radio station. Carter got none on Thursday. How sad! There should definitely be more respect for these men, outside of the various new music festivals in the area, which are for a select elite, it seems.

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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #7 on: December 13, 2008, 11:38:14 AM
 :o did we all forget the birthday or Anton Webern :o

this was on the third of decemeber
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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #8 on: December 13, 2008, 08:26:26 PM
:o did we all forget the birthday or Anton Webern :o

this was on the third of decemeber

Well, his birthday was not a big milestone compared to the two being celebrated in this thread. My local radio station actually played quite a bit of his music for his birthday. He still is considered to be a more widely known composer (and possibly better liked) than the two mentioned in this thread.

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Re: happy birthday Messiaen
Reply #9 on: December 14, 2008, 08:11:19 PM
CBC Radio 2 did play Messiaen all day on Sunday Dec 7. 
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach
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