# Olivier Messiaen

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Culture Gabfest - Lord of the Sheep Edition

On this week’s show, our panel of Dana, Steve, and Sam Adams are on the case. The case: is the movie Sheep Detectives a real movie and is it any good? The answer: it’s a star-studded cozy murder mystery based on a best-selling book about ungulate sleuths… and yeah, it might just be the surprise wor…

Lord of the Sheep Edition

On this week’s show, our panel of Dana, Steve, and Sam Adams are on the case. The case: is the movie Sheep Detectives a real movie and is it any good? The answer: it’s a star-studded cozy murder mystery based on a best-selling book about ungulate sleuths… and yeah, it might just be the surprise wor…

1. Celebrating Eight Decades of Music

Artistic Director, Ara Guzelimian talks about Esa-Pekka Salonen's return to the festival, Messiaen's birdsong obsession and celebrating 80 years of the Ojai Music Festival. Will Thomas, Producer Christopher Noxon, Host Ara Guzelimian, guest OJAICAST theme by Thomas Kotcheff and Louis Weeks Music…

Podcast #14: CHARLES KOECHLIN - France's Hidden Symphonist

In their latest episode of the Classical Discoveries podcast, Jens and Joe explore the scintillating music of Charles Koechlin, a fascinating yet overlooked French symphonist who defies easy categorisation. Neither purely an impressionist nor simply a romantic, dramatic, lyric, abstract, or “progra…

Randy Porter 7/31 7:30

Randy Porter, guitar Dan Plonsey, saxophone Irene Sazer, violin Jessica Ivry, cello Ward Spangler, percussion This virtuosic ensemble presents original compositions and spontaneous improvisations by master composer-improvisers. A reunion nearly four decades in the making, Plonsey, Sazer, Spangler, …

Dance to the End of Time

The music of the great French composer Olivier Messiaen is the last thing one would expect at a swing party, the last thing a band will play at a jazz club, and the absolute last thing couples will tangle with in a ballroom. It is music written for the end of the world, not for the end of a pleasan…

NOVA Chamber Music

Some of the best guests are worth road-tripping for! We travelled all the way down to Libby Gardner Hall at the University of Utah today to hear Master Keyboardists Richard Elliott and Jason Hardink perform as part of the NOVA Chamber Music Series. Established in 1977, NOVA is the oldest chamber mu…

How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music

A section of a facsimile of Stravinsky’s manuscript for Rite of Spring, which was published this year to mark the centenary   The Rite of Spring was a revolutionary work for a revolutionary time. Its first performance in Paris, exactly 100 years ago on Wednesday, was a key moment in cultural hi…

The Collection by Harold Pinter

Performed, abridged, and edited by Charlie Price MUSIC: "Embraceable You"- Bird and Miles, 1948 "My Funny Valentine", Miles, (live), 1964 Janacek- String Quartet "The Kreutzer Sonata" Des Canyons aux Etoiles, (From the Canyons to the Stars)- Olivier Messiaen  Content Warning: Menace, One use …

Songs of Solidarity: Dr. Florian Scheding

“Mobility, movement, migration—these aren't just things that happen to music. It is really very much a part of what music itself is.” Josephine is joined by Dr. Florian Scheding, Associate Professor of Music and Migration at the University of Bristol. Together, they explore how music acts not merel…