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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 132

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Richmond Times- Sunday, May 17, 1992 MODERN MUSIC'S UNIQUE VOICE Olivier Messiaen wrote his most famous composition, "Quartet for the End of Time," in 1941, while he was a prisoner of war. Messiaen a master of religious themes CLARKE BUSTARD Olivier Messiaen's death at the age of 83 has silenced a unique voice in modern music. In a secular century, Messiaen was intensely religious. In a mechanistic age, he was preoccupied with nature. Amid a proliferation of compositional theories and -isms, he made music that sounds like spontaneous invention.

'Messiaen was born in Avignon, France, to a literary family: His father translated Shakespeare; his mother was a poet. Although Shakespeare remained a strong influence on the composer, the natural outgrowth of that interest opera never figured strongly in his work. Religion did specifically, the mystical side of Catholicism, which has informed European composition from Hildegard of Bingen and Orlando di Lasso through Anton Bruckner and Igor Stravinsky. Messiaen, however, was and for the forseeable future will remain the master of this idiom. His choral and organ music, his one opera and many of his orchestral scores were meditations on Christian themes and scripture.

Complexities of rhythm and its relation to tone were fixations that led Messiaen to study music of ancient civilizations and non-Western cultures. These studies, in turn, contributed to an interest in the musical possibilities of two ambient sounds Messiaen heard every day: church bells and bird calls. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Paul Dukas and Marcel After serving for many years as a church organist, he returned to the conservatory in 1947, where his classes in rhythm and harmony became magnets for the likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Messiaen's most famous composition dates from 1941: "Quartet for the End of Time," scored for piano, violin, cello and clarinet, was written while the composer was a prisoner of war, and was in the German Stalag in Silesia. One of the great chamber pieces of the century, the quartet sums up Messiaen's influences and style.

In the '60s, Walter Braxton was a teen-aged composer-pianist, a of Richmond Symphony Conductor Edgar Schenkman, and one of the city's brightest young musicians. Where has he been? Very busy, from the look and sound of a recital $100 SouthGate Midiothian Turnpike Cinemas Any Show 233-2777 THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE 5:10, 7:30 THE LAWNMOWER MAN 5:00, 7:10 JUICE (3:00) 9:50 THE PRINCE OF TIDES 9:20 Showtimes in () are for Saturday, Sunday Only, LEEX 934 W. 355-0380 Grace St. THEATRE Fri. Open Sat.

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Nude 1990 LIVE ON STAGE XXX May 11-May 17 Mikki Fine WILD THINGS Rocco, Ashlyn Gere Elle Rio, Tess Fare VICE I Cameo, Steve Drake Church choirs plan joint concert By Clarke Bustard Staff writer "Music for a Great Space," the annual joint concert by the choirs of St. James's and St. Paul's Episcopal churches, is set for 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Laurel Street at Park Avenue. The churches' music directors, Bruce Stevens of St.

James's a and Grant Hellmers of St. Paul's, will conduct Ottorino Respighi's "Laud for the Nativity" and Zoltan "Missa Brevis." Soloists in the Respighi will be soprano Sharon Mattox, mezzo-soprano Lillian Arning and tenor Jay Be Ville. Sally Godsey, Mary Susan Ladd, Margaret Furgerson, Tony Wallace, Martin Strother and Ms. Arning will be soloists in the Kodaly Mass. The Richmond Symphony will accompany the voices.

Admission is free; donations will be accepted. Richmond Symphony Double Exposure: Manahan conducting, with mezzo-soprano Emily Manhart and tenor Gran Wilson, in Copland's "Eight Songs of Emily Dickinson," Britten's "Les Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Roussel's Concerto for small orchestra and Respighi's "Trittico Botticelliano," 3 p.m. today, Virginia Commonwealth University Performing Arts Center. (Introductory talk one hour before concert.) Champagne Pops: George Manahan conducting, with singers Lynn West, Richard Harrell, John Glenn and Strong, in "Salute to Irving Berlin," 8 p.m. Saturday, Carpenter Center.

All-Star Pops: Steve Allen, 8 p.m. May 30, Mosque. Double Exposure: Manahan conducting, with pianist Aleck Karis, in music by Bartok, Stravinsky and Schubert, 8 p.m. June 5, 3 p.m. June 7, VCU Performing Arts Center.

(Introductory talks one hour before each concert.) Masterworks: Manahan conducting, with pianist Yefim Bronfman, in music by Dvorak, Liszt and Sibelius, 8 p.m. June 13 and 15, Carpenter Center. BRIEFS From wire services Daryl F. Gates, Los Angeles' embattled lame-duck police chief, will be Phil Donahue's sole guest on his syndicated talk show May 26. It's the first national talk-show appearance for Gates, who last week participated in the arrest of four black men charged with beating a white trucker during the riots.

After months of quiet testing, Dolby will debut its digital plus analog optical track format next month with the release of Warner "Batman Returns." Dolby hopes to have virtually all of the more than 2,000 "Batman Returns" prints encoded with the Stereo SR process when it opens on June 19. The SR format allows a single print to carry digital and analog optical soundtracks by placing the digital track between the film sprocket holes. Paramount Home Video has set a $24.95 price for its comedy blockbuster "Wayne's World," which will hit dealer shelves in August. At the same time, Columbia TriStar Home Video is expected to bring "Hook" to market, reportedly at a $24.98 suggested list. "Wayne's World" will be released to the public Aug.

12. DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin will join the National Symphony Orchestra in pops concerts Thursday and Friday at The Kennedy Center. Soloists, ensembles Richmond Classical Guitar Society members concert, 2 p.m. today, Virginia Museum auditorium. Organist J.

Michael Grant, 6 p.m. today, Church of the Good Shepherd, Forest Hill Avenue at 43rd Street (free; reception follows). Basso Martin Strother, organist Patrick Carlin trumpeter Michael Davison, choir and brass quartet in music by Handel, Mozart, Haydn and others, 7 p.m. today, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Laurel Street at Park Avenue (free). "A Festival of Reveille United Methodist Church Chancel Choir and chamber orchestra, Ted Davis directing, in Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and Handel's "Jubilate," 7:30 p.m.

today, Reveille Church, 4200 Cary Street Road (free). Midday Music: Violinist Loretta Carreras and guitarist David Toussaint music by Bach, Giuliana, Albeniz, Joplin and others, 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ninth and Love stories will get their due when Geneva hosts a romance film festival. "Le Festival International du Film d'Amour" is tentatively scheduled for December 1993.

Audrey Hepburn has agreed to sit on the festival's founding committee. Line Cinema hopes to launch a franchise of action films built around actor Thomas Ian Griffith. The first film of its three-picture deal with the 30-year-old performer, "Excessive Force," just wrapped in Chicago. in ABC's TV movie "Rock Hudson" Griffith, who played the title role and the villain in "The Karate Kid III," wrote the script for "Excessive Force." He plays a Chicago police officer who is framed for the murders of several friends. James Earl Jones co-stars.

The Disney Channel has announced it will begin production next month on "Heidi," a new fourhour miniseries. The company hopes this production, with a screenplay by Jeanne Rosenberg Journey of Natty will become the definitive film of Johanna Spyri's classic children's novel. Gospel festival set for today The annual gospel festival of the Virginia Folk Music Association will be staged today at the Southside Electric Pavilion in Crewe. State championship titles will be awarded in nine categories, said VFMA president Boyce Wallace. Competitions will be open for choir, female solo, male solo, quartet, trio and duet, plus piano.

Con- tests for teen-agers will be in two groups. Only Virginia residents can participate. Trophies will be awarded for first, second and third place in each category. Instrumental cassettes may be used only for vocal backup for soloists. Registration will be held from noon to 2 p.m.

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Auditions Richmond Symphony Young Performer's Program: string auditions for Young Artists Orchestra (junior youth orchestra) and Greater Richmond Youth Symphony Orchestra (senior youth orchestra), 4 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, VCU Music Building (old church), Grove Avenue at Harrison Street. Information, scheduling: Adam Lesnick, 788-4717. Richmond Symphony Chorus auditions June 6, 7 and 9 at Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond. Information, scheduling: 270-6344 or 788-4717.

Music outdoors Plaza Pizazz: Voltage Jazz, 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nations Bank Plaza, 12th and Main streets (free). Innsbrook After Hours: Voltage Brothers, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Innsbrook Pavilion, Broad Street and Cox roads ($2 at gate). Cheers: Robbin Thompson, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Festival Park (free), Jazz Singer Arthur Prysock, with saxophonist Red Prysock and band, Debo Dabney Trio and singer Ernestine Jackson, 7 p.m. today, The Atrium, 10 S. Sixth St. (Ticket information: 353-9180.) Glen Wilson Quartet, Bob Hallahan Trio and Eye of Hurricane (VCU jazz students and faculty), noon-5 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday during James River Wine Festival 1992, Brown's Island.

(Ticket information: 359-4645.) Singer Eddie Vann with pianist Bob Hallahan, bassist Randall 'Pharr and drummer Scott Taylor, 9:30 p.m. May 29, Benjamin's, 2053 W. Broad St. (free). New music Guitar-synthesizer duo La Bradford Ticket information Carpenter Center: 782-3900 (10 a.m.-5 p.m.

weekdays, 4-8 p.m. Saturdays if event is scheduled). Mosque: 780-4213 (10 a.m.5:30 p.m. weekdays). Richmond Symphony: 788- 1212 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.

weekdays). Virginia Commonwealth University Performing Arts Center box office: 367-6046 (noon-4 p.m. weekdays). Virginia Museum: 367-8148 (11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m.

Sunday). TicketMaster (telephone orders by credit card for Mosque, Coliseum, Carpenter Center, Hampton Coliseum, Norfolk Scope and Chrysler Hall): (800) 543-3041 (9 a.m.-10 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays).

he presented last weekend at the Richmond Public Library. Braxton offered an unusually extensive survey of original vocal, chamber and solo-piano works. The program looked like one of those marathons you read about Mozart or Beethoven putting on: the Gloria from a Mass, a Psalm setting, a set of eight piano preludes, a Romance for violin and piano, a Piano Trio, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. Surprise: The recital was over in less than 90 minutes. Braxton turns out to be a very economical composer, loath to overwork material.

(The String Quartet No. 1 zipped by in less than 10 minutes, the preludes in barely more than a minute each.) His style could be described as post-impressionist. His melodies recall those of or some of the '20s Parisian school known as Les Six not unlike "new-age" music, only Braxton finishes his tunes. His harmonies are of more recent provenance, with the density characteristic of much midcentury composition. His personal voice comes through in an unconventional mixture of rhythmic vitality and earnest lyricism that I have heard mostly in church anthems.

Expressively, Braxton's music sounds ambivalent. He favors moderated tempos allegretto, andantino and 1 avoids emotional extremes. He exhibits a temperamental rigor that can sound like the musical equivalent of table manners. The best work of the set, the Romance for violin and piano, played by violinist Robert Land with the composer at the keyboard, was the one work in which Braxton let himself speak at length, in an extended, intensely songful reverie for violin. Lyrical sections of his Piano Quintet that highlighted the piano (played by Jane Benson) showed a similar freedom, and benefited greatly from it.

No sooner do I write about a piece that hasn't been recorded than somebody ups and records it. Last month, I reviewed the University of Richmond orchestra's performance (only the second in this country) of Polish composer Henryk Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (1976). This somber but greatly appealing work now has been released by the London Sinfonietta, David Zinman conducting (Nonesuch, compact disc). The soloist, Dawn Upshaw, has few peers among lyric sopranos, but I wish the producers had chosen a heavier voice of more Slavic inflection for the folk and liturgical texts.

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(Ticket information: 649-7827.) Elsewhere LEXINGTON Sonoklect, Washington and Lee University's new-music festival, with electronic composer Gary Lee Nelson in lecture-concert, 8 p.m. tomorrow, Lee Chapel, and workshop-demonstration, 3 p.m. Wednesday, duPont 301 (free). WASHINGTON This week at the Kennedy Center: Pianist Vladimir Feltsman in music by Bach, Prokofiev and Schumann, 3 p.m. today, Concert Hall National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich conducting, in music by Haydn and Mahler, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Concert Hall Flutist Sara Stern in music by Jolivet, Ravel and others, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Terrace Theater Singer Nana Mouskouri, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Concert Hall National Symphony Pops, with Bobby McFerrin, 7 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Concert Hall Washington Chamber Symphony, Stephen Simon conducting, in music by Simon, Copland, Bernstein and Argento, 7:30 p.m.

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