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 ...

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 ...

Countless composers have incorporated birdsong into their music, from Beethoven to Ottorino Respighi to — most famously — Olivier Messiaen. But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went one step ...

Elsewhere, Jacques' legacy lives on through his 1928 volume "Why Birds Sing" and his influence on French composer Olivier Messiaen, who regularly incorporated birdsong into his work. The bottling ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...