[lit-ideas] Re: Today's Geburtstagskind [birthday child]
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On 10-Dec-08, at 8:58 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
Avram Oliver Messiaen.
His full name appears to be Olivier-Eugène-Prosper-Charles Messiaen
(no Avram this time).
There are at least two sites devoted exclusively to him and his works:
www.oliviermessiaen.net/
and
www.oliviermessiaen.org/
Your prize, Donal, is a digital garden warbler - apparently one of the
more influential birds in Messiaen's work. Enter the term ' Sylvia
borin' into Google Advanced Image Search or some similar search engine
and take your pick from the approximately 8,000 images (and for adding
the 'Avram' take your pick from the over 44,000 images of 'tweety
bird').
Of course, you may want to hear the bird (the garden warbler, that is)
sing. If so, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvfLY8O-T6Y
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
Date: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 11:36 AM
Today - a centenary.
He was born 10 Dec. 1908 - the son of a poet and a teacher
of English (but his métier was not one of the literary
arts). A passionate amateur ornithologist (which is
reflected in many of his works), he apparently experienced a
mild form of synaesthasia and experimented with
perametrization [don't ask me - I'm reading the term
today for the first time myself!] . One of his masterpieces
was created in 1941 under the most appalling of conditions
while a prisoner of war interned in camp Stalag VIII-A
(which should eternally serve as both inspiration and
admonishment to those of us who worry about or complain of
less-than-optimal atmosphere, or paucity of materials of
sufficient quality, for creative endeavour).
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