National Jubilee 4/5

Spotlight on French music for the third installment of the National Jubilee. The exotic birds that sing in this score have "marvelous colored plumage," Messiaen confides, "these very vivid colors are in the music: all the colors of the rainbow circulate there, including red, the color of warm countries and the beautiful Cardinal of Virginia!" A dream for a birthday! All under the eye of a seventeen-year-old Bizet and Maurice Ravel's tender revere...