Say Happy 100th birthday! to French composer Olivier Messiaen during a free lunchtime concert in his honor today at A Little Day Music: The Fischer Duo. Now, dont expect Messiaen to be at the concert; he passed away in the early 1990s, but the Fischer Duo will do their best to represent. Norman Fischer, on cello, and Jeanne Kierman Fischer, on piano, will perform a movement from the Quartet for the End of Time, a composition Messiaen wrote and performed while in a German prison camp in the early 1940s. Messiaen always insisted the composition was not based on his situation at the time, and far from being a defeatist piece of music, Quartet is filled with sweetness and powerful melodic themes. Noon. Grand foyer, Wortham Theater Center. 501 Texas. For information, call 713-524-5050 or visit www.dacamera.com. Free.
Wed., Dec. 3, noon, 2008
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