Comments on On An Overgrown Path: On the path of Stockhausen's teachers

Amazing how often Des Canyons aux Etoiles is being...

2007-12-14T08:05:00.000Z

Amazing how often Des Canyons aux Etoiles is being performed as of late. Keith Lockhart and the Utah Symphony played it earlier this year in its first performance in Utah. I found it slightly ironic that a piece with so many references to Utah took over 30 years before it was actually performed here!

It is Bryce Canyon -http://www.overgrownpath.com/2...

2007-12-13T10:52:00.000Z

It is Bryce Canyon -

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/12/olivier-messiaen-in-bryce-canyon.html

It's actually Bryce Canyon in the photo used for t...

2007-12-13T05:01:00.000Z

It's actually Bryce Canyon in the photo used for the poster, the rock formation that looks like a cup above the h in Southbank is the giveaway; Messiaen, of course, visited Bryce Canyon, which is mentioned in the 7th part of Des Canyons aux Etoiles.

Good program at the Southbank Centre; I'll have to content myself with the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen doing Des Canyons aux Etoiles in January. The New York City Opera is doing St. Francois di Assisi in Gerard Mortier's first season, 2009-10.

Alas, I won't be able to make it across the pond f...

2007-12-13T01:38:00.000Z

Alas, I won't be able to make it across the pond for any of this, but I'd love to have a copy of that promotional poster for my studio, which is something I'm usually not prone to collect. (mixing Messaien and what looks like Sedona, AZ- how could I not).

Dave Brubeck was also one of Milhaud's students. ...

2007-12-12T15:17:00.000Z

Dave Brubeck was also one of Milhaud's students. Brubeck even named a son after him.

OMG, we'll have a Messiaen year next year? Where c...

2007-12-12T10:01:00.000Z

OMG, we'll have a Messiaen year next year? Where can I emigrate to?

I wrote recently about how so many composer's name...

2007-12-12T07:26:00.000Z

I wrote recently about how so many composer's names begin with 'B'.

To prove me wrong Stockhausen's teachers all began with 'M' - Martin, Milhaud and Messiaen.

Coincidence or part of a cosmic plan?

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/11/file-between-boulez-and-boyce.html