Olivier Messiaen: the birdman

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going to speak about another composer who was particularly influential in this post-tonal timeframe that we are going through - and that was Olivier Messiaen. I know I said in the last episode we would be chatting more about serialist composers and extensions of serialism, but I think it is important that we discuss Messiaen, as many of those composers studied with him.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this episode:Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)Vingt regards sur l’enfant-jésusPoèmes pour mi