MUSIC

Messiaen: Les Corps Gloreux

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2023
6:45 PM

Saint Thomas Church In Person & Live Stream
1 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan

Free-$40
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Messiaen’s organ music — the composer was a star organist — has all the visionary mystic intensity and splendor of Messiaen’s ensemble music, and all the harmonic and structural audacity — with none of the occasional bombast and vulgarity (which, too be sure, aren’t necessarily negative qualities, as recent hearers of the Turangalîla Symphony will tell you). This music is a unique experience.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person,Frenchette goes Uptown and becomes somewhat less interesting at Le Rock. Streaming at home, have an Episcopal Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. green Chartreuse and 3/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.