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Jeffery Smith reflects on the life of Olivier Messiaen and a centenary festival, From the Canyons to the Stars
From the Canyons to the Stars is the festival at London’s South Bank celebrating Olivier Messiaen’s music
He was celebrated before he was born at Avignon in 1908 in poems published by his mother By 1919 he was a student at the Paris Conservatoire where he taught till he was seventy
In his book on the composer, Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time (Faber & Faber, 1985) Paul Griffiths says he is the first great composer whose works exist entirely after the great Western tradition His music is full of heterophonies: of different threads moving at different speeds, like the music of many clocks running fast and slow, forwards and backwards Bar lines and the onward movement they produce were replaced more by pulses, often based on Indian rhythms Major and minor scales and the goal orientation they produce, familiar in Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms, were replaced by modes of limited transposition
Jeffery Smith
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