October 12, 2005 Source: Mount Allison University:
http://www.mta.ca/news/?id=827 Lecture-recital will capture the feature, style, and soul of Messiaen, October 14 Sackville, NB — Pianist David Rogosin will be presenting a lecture-recital on Olivier Messiaen’s hypnotic and electrifying masterwork, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, in Brunton Auditorium on Friday, October 14th at 8 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. Rogosin was recently invited to perform this lecture-recital at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will be offering it in French at the Université de Moncton on October 20th. It will be repeated at Mount Allison this Friday as an open dress rehearsal, since the same repertoire was previously performed here in April, 2002. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was one of the most significant and influential composers of the twentieth century, along with Schoenberg, Bartók, and Stravinsky. His highly idiosyncratic musical language is typified in his 1944 masterwork, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, a work in 20 movements and requiring some two hours of performance time. Messiaen had an eclectic approach to composition, and many of the characteristic features of his style are heard here: birdsong, Hindu rhythms, sound-colour synesthesia, numerology, extremes of tempo (particularly the very slow), and, most importantly, the embodiment of his Catholic faith in symbol and in spirit. Dr. Rogosin will perform seven of the pieces, and his comments will outline both the idiosyncratic and symbolic elements that are encoded in the music, and the form of the musical structures themselves. Dr. Rogosin has been associate professor of music at Mount Allison University — teaching piano, keyboard literature, keyboard harmony, accompaniment, and analytical techniques — since September 2001. He previously taught at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois), Brandon University, the Université de Montréal, and the David Thompson University Centre (Nelson, B.C.), and holds a doctorate in performance from UBC (Vancouver). A native of Brandon, Manitoba, Rogosin has performed across Canada, in the American midwest, and the Caribbean. In April 2005, he released his first solo CD, entitled Incandescence, featuring works by Brahms, Bartók, Messiaen, and Dallapiccola. Dr. Rogosin also serves frequently as an adjudicator for music festivals throughout the Maritime region. -30-
For more information please contact Dr. Rogosin, tel: 364-2380 (drogosin@mta.ca).
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