Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship with the arts; Poet and librettist ...

The composer Olivier Messiaen famously introduced blackbirds and nightingales into his music. It is both baffling and bewitching ...

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer steeped in the solitude and ecstasy of Catholic mysticism: everything he wrote was ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

Cal Performances presents American Modern Opera Company in the U.S. premiere of its production of Olivier Messiaen’s “Harawi” at 8 p.m. Sept. 27 in Zellerbach Hall, Bancroft Way at Dana ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, a vast, 10-movement work for an orchestra so large that there almost wasn’t room for the augmented, percussion-laden forces even in the ...

I am known as one of the foremost experts on the music of Olivier Messiaen, as well as being one of the finest British pianists of my generation. My complete Messiaen cycle has been described as ‘one ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

C ountless composers have incorporated birdsong into their music, from Beethoven to Ottorino Respighi to — most famously — ...

A poet who explores and questions faith finds inspiration and provocation in the music of Olivier Messiaen, a composer who made ancient faith sing in the secular world “Je suis né croyant.” ...