Arts Life The Plain Dealer Breaking news: Messiaen work exquisitely played DONALD ROSENBERG Plain Dealer Reporter MUSIC Two of the 20th century's most daring composers were born a day and a continent apart in December 1908: France's Olivier Messiaen (the 10th) and America's Elliott Carter (the 11th). Their centenaries next week have been giving musicians ample opportunity to celebrate this year. Carter is alive and creatively active, while Messiaen died in 1992. To honor the latter, the Cleveland Museum of Art's Viva! Gala Around Town series is presenting concerts devoted largely to chamber works. The earliest, and arguably greatest, of these pieces is "Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps" for the End of which members of the Cleveland Orchestra performed Wednesday in the museum's Donna and James Reid Gallery.
It was an evening of exquisite "AN UNFORGETTABLE MOTION PICTURE EXPERIENCE. Powerful and moving beyond words." Pete Hammond, HOLLYWOOD.COM Heartland TRITY MOWING PICTURE AWARD A TIMELESS STORY OF INNOCENCE LOST AND HUMANITY FOUND THE BOY STRIPED PG-13 HEYDAY The FILMS StripenPajamnas PAJAMAS MIRAMAX com NOW CINEMARK VALLEY VIEW PLAYING Valley View 216-447-7900 ATLAS CINEMAS CLEVELAND CINEMAS DIAMOND CENTER CEDAR LEE Mentor 440-352-8822 Cleveland Heights 440-564-2030 ATLAS CINEMAS REGAL CINEMAS GREAT LAKES STADIUM CROCKER PK. STAD. 16 Mentor 440-974-0764 Westlake 800-Fandango REVIEW Messiaen Centenary What: The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Cleveland Orchestra members Franklin Cohen (clarinet), Stephen Rose (violin), Richard Weiss (cello) and Joela Jones (piano) performing Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time." When: 3 p.m. today.
Where: Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Cleveland. Tickets: Free. Call 1-888-262-0033. artistry amid overly resonant acoustics and a ventilation fan that hummed throughout the concert. Even so, the masterpiece's sonic luster, harmonic wealth and spiritual intensity came blazing through.
Messiaen composed the quartet while incarcerated in a German -war camp in Silesia in 1940 and 1941. Scored for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the work comprises eight movements embracing Messiaen's characteristic themes of religious and natural wonder. The composer himself played piano at the premiere in January 1941, when fellow prisoners a and Nazi guards were transported from grim reality to a realm of sacred radiance and fervor. Each of the quartet's movements establishes MIT. ADENINE CANNE HATHAWAY DELIVERS AN ACTING TOUR DE Trevors, ROLLING STONE RACHEL MARRIED A JONATHAN DEMME PICTURE WRITTEN BY JERNY LUMET: PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY JONATHAN DEMME RI SONY PICTURES CLASSICS CLEVELAND CINEMAS.
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One entry per person. NO WALK-INS OR TELEPHONE CALLS ACCEPTED. IN THEATERS DECEMBER 12th cleveland.com Saturday, December 6, 2008 COMING UP: A look at Olivier Messiaen's legacy on his 100th birthday. In Sunday Arts aspects of Messiaen's art that would become familiar: luminous unison lines, spectral and bold harmonic colors, languid and brilliant birdcalls, ingenious rhythmic activity. The Catholicism that was so central to Messiaen's life pervades the quartet's inspiration.
Evocations of angels can be heard in the soaring and insistent phrases. The solo cello and violin lines have yearning statements that, rather than ending time, almost compel it to stand still. From the piano's lilting colors and clarinet's expressive and perky orations, Messiaen creates cavalcades of tonal awe. Much of the piece's glorious substance was muted Wednesday by the space, which didn't promote sufficient clarity for details to be savored. But one could still sense great performance in the air.
Clarinetist Franklin Cohen, violinist Stephen Rose, cellist Richard Weiss and pianist Joela Jones conveyed Messiaen's messages with exceptional fluidity, grace and animation, as if they were engaged in close encounters of a sublime kind. To reach Donald Rosenberg: 216-999-4269 COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Two soldiers take cover in Geich, Germany, in a photo from Ken Burns' "The War." FROM El Stories people share are 'an incredible gift' OF QUANTUM BOND 7 SOLACE IS 007.COM RICH PG-13 CO. NOW PLAYING CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES "What is that?" "I've paid lip service tion that it might be emotional archaeology. tions are touched or in a way that people AMERICA'S MOVIE! "THE FUNNIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! VINCE VAUGHN AND REESE WITHERSPOON ARE TERRIFIC. THE PERFECT HOLIDAY TREAT!" Shawn Edwards.
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