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Des canyons aux étoiles... (From the canyons to the stars...) is a large twelve-movement work (between 90 and 100 minutes in length) by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was written to a 1971 commission by the American Alice Tully for a work to celebrate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence. It was first performed in 1974. While preparing the work, Messiaen visited Utah in 1972, where he was inspired by the landscape and its birds, and particularly Bryce Canyon and its colours (Messiaen had bi-directional sound-colour synaesthesia; see also modes of limited transposition). youtu.be/SI6lHNbS7Ck
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:03:31 +0000

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