Messiaen's best loved symphony and music for four guitars at Yale.Turangalîla-Symphonie 8 p.m. Dec. 12. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. (203) 432-4158. yale.edu/music/messiaen.
"It is as if I were learning to speak a whole new language.”
That’s my friend Wei-Yi Yang, talking about the piano part in Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, one of the biggest, most luscious orchestral pieces written in the past century.
(2008 Dec 11 / Daniel Johnson and Christopher Arnott) 13a
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