“Je ne puis pas imaginer un instant que quiconque mette ma foi en doute. C’est vraiment toute ma vie, ma motivation du composituer.”
“I cannot imagine for an instant that anyone could doubt my faith. It is truly my whole life, my motivation as a composer.”
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You shouldn't have translated it. You are too kind to the Journos, Angelas, Jons, Break Dancing Jesuses and James Purnells of the world.
ReplyDeleteI know, but I can barely read German.
ReplyDeleteMind you, I bet that they can't, either.
Yes, he is wonderful. And his centenary year, has, for once, brought fine performances of his music, both symphonic and devotional, in places where he is too seldom heard: this applies to, amongst other, all the places I have listened to his pieces performed this year: the various venues on London's South Bank, Westminster Cathedral, The Cliffs Pavilion Westcliff (Essex), The London Oratory, the Royal Albert Hall, and St Paul's Cathedral (where La Nativité du Seigneur formed the basis for a wonderfully meditative evening service last Sunday): but perhaps, one can say, more generally, everywhere in this country.
ReplyDeleteOff to a concert in honour of his centenary tonight.
If only more modernists were like him, not losing sight of the eternal and the true in their egotistical temporal follies.
If only, indeed.
ReplyDeleteMilton yesterday, Messiaen today, there's more to you than anger and politics, isn't there?
ReplyDeleteOh, much, much more...
ReplyDeleteOf course, all these things are political, and there is no effective politics without them.
Some people call that Postmodernism.
But some of us don't have to.
Err, he's dead, you fool. Like your brain
ReplyDeleteNever!
ReplyDeleteNo doubt like Jobbing Academic, Dominic and Anonymous 17:54, I had assumed that not only he, but also the four hundred year old John Milton, was still alive.