Monday, August 28, 2017

Pianist Taka Kigawa Talks Messiaen, And Playing The Bird Marathon

Messaien's "Catalogue of Birds" is "an absurd undertaking for a pianist. Its sprawling score demands that performers master three hours of complex music: the painstakingly transcribed sounds of European birds." But Kigawa is performing it today in Greenwich Village. How?



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