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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“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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