Verse
Coulthard, Leslie Jean
prison for six hours. After the six-hour detention, we were released with our identity cards, without one question being Music asked. Such detention for Birzeit students, faculty, and...
...While thinking about graduate school is, in remarkable resourcefulness to widen the scope of what many cases, wishful thinking, students of Birzeit continue to explicitly Catholic music could and should be...
...Francis of Assisi, in Boston and New York, euphoric about their collective prospects...
...Exit the sheep and healing a leper...
...It will happen sometime...
...Birzeit University students worry constantly about their papers, identifi- 0 LIVIER MESSIAEtv'S visit to the...
...subjects derived from a wide variety of bird songs, some of them transcribed in the field by Messiaen...
...sit around and talk about their graduate careers...
...FRANCIS' taught at Birzeit University to be delayed at the airport...
...Enter the wolves from oft' left...
...They have has been a particularly apt expression of the spirit of Cathopicked their teeth clean, and their teeth licism in the late twentieth century...
...The performances were conductedd by Seiji Ozawa, music Commonweal: 658...
...It is as though Palestinians are saying strumental sounds in the manner of Europe's postwar avantthat "time is on our side . . . the occupation will end some- garde (a movement virtually launched by Messiaen himself), day...
...It was a regular event for me when I MESSIAEN'S 'ST...
...The eclectic variety of these musical materials can shock an Leslie Jean Coulthard unwary listener, but overall the rightness of Messiaen's assemblage is fully as startling...
...When asked if The three substantial segments of the opera, which were they will graduate, or go to the U.S...
...avowedly religious and Roman Catholic for more than half a Students continue to graduate from Birzeit University, even century...
...someone answers...
...Life under occupation is life in peripheral tracks, Messiaen's most important music has been slow motion...
...curfew or checkpoint), get married, have children, and help Except for a troubled period when his creativity flowed in their children in their studies...
...and synthesis of everything the composer had done before...
...for advanced training, or performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the get a good job, they usually reply that it's not a question of Tanglewood Festival Chorus, amounted to a recapitulation "if" but a question of "when...
...For many listeners this comEnter the Wolves poser's music, which combines European and Asian musical Enter the wolves: from off left, approaches, and traditional sounds with radically new ones, stonily gleaming...
...Everything gets done in time, but very slowly...
...his works...
...United States earlier this cation cards, families, and their futures, but, like other Pales- year to supervise performances of excerpts from his tinians, they are extremely resilient to their daily adversity and opera, St...
...From his path-breaking orchestral suite of 1933, The though it may take five or seven years to do so...
...Students still go Ascension, to the six-hour-long St...
...And yet, it is Grand cadences recalling cathedral organ music punctuated truly a wonder how anyone can bank on the future in the passages constructed out of electronic tones and unusual inoccupied West Bank...
...Occupation of the West Bank leaves little over which to be optimistic, either for Palestinians or for Israelis...
...They still make opened a window on the achievement of this century's greatest plans for the future, go to work every day (unless there is a composer of religious music...
...The abridged American performances presented three of the enter the hope of the world, eight Tableaux of the opera: Francis's preaching to, kissing, Exit the sheep...
...Francis, completed in to classes and complete a semester, even if it takes five to 1983 after eight years of work, Messiaen has labored with seven months...
...Who knows for sure...
...The mere mention of "Birzeit" upon checking into airport security is enough to guarantee delays up to an hour by the security as they inspect every item of clothing, written INTONING REVERENCE material, or camera...
...After the six-hour detention, we were released with our identity cards, without one question being Music asked...
...The Boston presentation of these, with a handful of and some bloody fool infixed up in singers in concert dress on an elevated platform surrounded by ethics and moral theology is howling, hundreds of orchestral players and chorus members, had some forever contused among crystal resemblance to photos of the equally crowded stage layout of categories of sin_ Exit the lean ,beep, the original fully costumed performances in Paris, which surl weeping...
...achievements, is both the most catholic and most Catholic of they believe in family...
...Francis, the grandest are white, their teeth arc alabaster and most stylistically inclusive of all Messiaen's in their faces: they are kind wolves...
...the saint praying for and receiving the to the cavernous wings, off right, wounds of Christ...
...we'll survive...
...rounded a small stage-within-a-stage with hosts of choral singers...
...Exeunt 0i>>nc...
...As this writer prepared to leave Birzeit, a student waved while themes derived from Gregorian chants intersected with good-bye and said, "Don't worry about us...
...and Francis's death and reception into where the goats are weeping, heaven...
...Such detention for Birzeit students, faculty, and staff is routine...
Vol. 113 • December 1986 • No. 21
