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Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Alex Ross, The New Yorker
On Messiaen’s From the Canyons to the Stars…
February 22, 2016

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FOCUS and FIRE

“David Robertson, the St. Louis’s music director, shaped ‘Canyons’ with a sure hand. He quelled any suspicion that the work is indulgent or rambling; at the same time, he respected Messiaen’s meditativeness, his silences. The orchestra responded with playing of focus and fire.”

Alex Ross, The New Yorker
On Messiaen’s From the Canyons to the Stars…
February 22, 2016

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