| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 11-Apr-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Messiaen, Mozart and Murail offer a kaleidoscope of colors and sounds at the New York Philharmonic |
 “Synesthesia” is a neurological condition that causes an involuntary sensory experience to be provoked from an initial stimulation of a different sensory or cognitive pathway – for instance, automatically associating colors with numbers, letters, or sounds. Olivier Messiaen, a 20th-century French composer, organist, and ornithologist, “heard” colors in all music, whether tonal, modal, or serial. His own compositions are undeniably colorful themselves, dating back to his early composition Les offrandes oubliées (“The Forgotten Offerings”).Read full review... | |
