Article on Messiaen's 100th Birthday

Tom Huizenga wrote "Messiaen At 100: A Song For The Solar System," a brief article commemorating the composer's centennial, for NPR.org.

Olivier Messiaen Centennial Exhibit

If you are in the Music Library, please feel free to check out our exhibit on Olivier Messiaen. December 10, 2008, will mark the 100th birthday of the French composer. He enjoyed a reputation during his life as one of the major composers of the Twentieth Century, and this reputation continues.

If you would like to read more about Olivier Messiaen, please consult the article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, available online:

Paul Griffiths. "Messiaen, Olivier." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/18497 (accessed October 17, 2008).

You may also search for articles about Messiaen in the International Index to Music Periodicals, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, or The Music Index. Finally, our collection of books on Messiaen can be found by searching the NIU Library catalog for “messiaen, olivier” as a subject.

New Reference Books

The Music Library received three new reference books for its collection on Friday, April 11.

They are:

• Benitez, Vincent P. Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York: Routledge, 2008. Call no.: MUR ML134.M54 B46 2008.
• Ford, Robert. A Blues Bibliography, 2d ed. New York: Routledge, 2007. Call no.: MUR ML128.B49 F67 2007.
• Everett, William A., and Paul R. Laird. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, ed. Jon Woronoff, no. 22. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Call no. MUR ML102.M88 E94 2008.