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Quote from Professor Patrick Kavanaugh: Messiaens music reflects the man himself and his beliefs. Using his talents for the secular concert halls as well as for the church, he claimed, I wish to accomplish a LITURGICAL ACT–that is to say, to transfer a kind of divine office, a kind of communal praise to the CONCERT HALL. Explaining the great diversity within his musical style, he said, God for me is manifest, and my conception of sacred music derives from this conviction. GOD BEING PRESENT IN ALL THINGS, MUSIC DEALING WITH THEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS CAN AND MUST BE EXTREMELY VARIED. Olivier Messiaen was a Roman Catholic. Ora pro nobis. Source: Patrick Kavanaugh, Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Press, 1996), 199. amazon/Spiritual-Lives.../dp/0310208068
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:22:13 +0000

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