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OLIVIER MESSIAEN

10th December 1908 --- 27th April 1992

I would like to kindly thank Mark A. Hurley, who has a B.S. in Teacher Education from Towson University in Maryland, who has
sent me the following information on the below.

Here is a excerpt from the Email, I like the Olivier Messiaen "Vision of the Eternal Church. It's in my repetoire and I plan to use
it for Easter Sunday.   I have some programs notes around somewhere about the composition.  It may sound morbid, but it is a
reflection on the Resurrection  of Christ  and his  Eternal Church.   This is typical of Messiaen.  I heard him  premiere one  of his
compositions in 1971, of which I can't remember. (I think it was La Nativite.) He performed on the Grand Gallery Organ  at the
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. There are two organs, other being a smaller  (but still lrage)
transept organ, The organs were built by M.P. Moller of Hagerstown, MD [closed in 1993]). However here's a thumbnail sketch
of him:

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a pupil of Marcel Dupre and Paul Dukas and the teacher of Boulez and Stockhausen. He was
organist of  Trinite Church in Paris  and professor at  the Paris Conservatoire from  1941 to 1976.   Uniquely personal  in sound
rhythmic complexity, source material and religious symbolism,  his organ music from 1927  to 1986 is profoundly mystical,  an
extraordinary coming together of the meditative and the ecstatic, of time released and time contained, of centuries-old French
organ style  absorbed,  transcended  and reborn.  It should be  noted that the  organ in Trinite was  the same  builder  of  Notre
Dame,  Sacre Couer and Ste. Clothide,  Aristide Cavaille-Coll.   He brought the  French romantic  organ to  its zenith  in the 19th
century. It was on these grand organs that the organ symphonies of Widor, etc., were composed.

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By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(1331)"Le Banquet Celeste". Sequenced by Serge Winitzki

(1332)"Part 1, (of life on Earth, with all its fruitless agitation)". Sequenced by Serge Winitzki

(90)"Vision of the eternal church, a intense morbid piece". Sequenced by Serge Winitzki

(525)"Diptyque, (1929) Essai sur la vie terrestre et l'éternité bienheureuse". Sequenced by Serge Winitzki

(527)"La Nativite de Seigneur IV (Les Anges)". Sequenced by Serge Winitzki

(1333)"Le Banquet Céleste, not the same as the piece above". Sequenced by DJ

(1334)"Stevenard de l'esprit de joie, from Vingt Stevenards sur l'enfant Jésus". Sequenced by DJ

(1335)"Prelude for piano No. 2, Chant 'extase dans un paysage triste". Sequenced by DJ

(526)"L'Ascension I, Majesté du Christ". Sequenced by Andrea Amic

(528)"L'Ascension IV, Prière du Christ". Sequenced by Andrea Amic

(1336)"Unknown title" Seqencer unknown

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