happy birthday Messiaen

[communist]

 

[retrouvailles]

Seconded! And a happy birthday 1 day in advance to Elliott Carter!

[imbetter]

happy birthday to a great composer.

[sharon_f]

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

[quantum]

Cheers 

[furtwaengler]

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!

[retrouvailles]

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.

[healdie]

  did we all forget the birthday or Anton Webern

this was on the third of decemeber

[retrouvailles]

did we all forget the birthday or Anton Webern

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.

[quantum]

CBC Radio 2 did play Messiaen all day on Sunday Dec 7.