tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7294753925701386587..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Is Olivier Messiaen part of the Vichy myth?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-54937886012191424452014-05-31T07:13:04.175+01:002014-05-31T07:13:04.175+01:00A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has made t...A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has made the following comment:<br /><br />Your question on Messiaen’s activities during the Occupation seems to have been answered in the volume: CHIMÈNES, Myriam, SIMON, Yannick “La musique à Paris sous l’Occupation” Fayard, where there is a chapter called: BALMER, Yves, BRENT MURRAY, Christopher “Olivier Messaien et la reconstruction de sa carrière sous l’Occupation. Le vide de l’année 1941. <br /><br />The book is published (in electronic form as well) by Fayard, one of the leading music publishing in France, so the issue is now hardly unknown to the scholars and music-loving public. I am not uninterested in the confluence of music and politics and have no sympathy for the politics of the Vichy regime. The remaining question for the scholars is if his taking over the harmony chair at the Conservatoire had at the time any significance or rather if by that time the later evolution of Messiaen could be guessed (it has become very common in the studies to decry in hindsight the fact that Tony Aubin kept the composition chair in the Conservatory).Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-3384406970313013522014-05-26T14:02:05.263+01:002014-05-26T14:02:05.263+01:0026 May 2014. There has been a sudden large spike i...26 May 2014. There has been a sudden large spike in traffic coming to this post from an unidentified Facebook page. I am interested to find out the context of that Facebook link. Information identifying the link should be sent to the email address in the sidebar. Thanks.<br /><br />Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-91007959033117389552012-01-16T09:22:33.236+00:002012-01-16T09:22:33.236+00:00There is factual evidence that Messiaen's symp...There is factual evidence that Messiaen's sympathies lay with the conservative element in the Catholic Church. Andrew Shenton's <i>Messiaen the Theologian</i> tells us that Messiaen, together with Duruflé, was a member of the honorific committe of Una Voce, a Catholic organisation founded in 1964 to protect the traditional Mass. <br /><br />Una Voce shares some aims with more insidious groups such as Monsignor Lefebvre's Society of St. Pius X but distances itself from traditionalist and schismatic Catholic movements.<br /><br />http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_DMzPErX20wC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=messiaen+lefebvre&source=bl&ots=Helw1hmQ3Z&sig=X4tb2ZSiuLjrLIun8KSPSgmhyBM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wuMTT4DwJ4ik8gODp8nGCg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=messiaen%20lefebvre&f=falsePliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-5403321702392468252012-01-16T04:29:47.949+00:002012-01-16T04:29:47.949+00:00Many say Webern was a Nazi sympathizer and that Be...Many say Webern was a Nazi sympathizer and that Berg at least turned a blind eye to it all (even though their music was rejected by the Nazis). And Schoenberg himself Jewish condemned both democracy and socialism while singing the praises of totalitarian regimes, he was at least somewhat sympathetic to Nazi goals.<br /><br />Interesting trends. But perhaps it says more about the sickness of European culture at that time in general? Or maybe the rejection of tonality says something more about ones mental state... who could say?Nathan Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123467208814463388noreply@blogger.com