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February 2, 2000

8:00 p.m.
Pre-Symposium Concert by the SU Chamber Soloists
February 3, 2000

9:00 a.m.
Welcome: An Introduction to the Music of Messiaen
Robert Sherlaw-Johnson
10:30 a.m.
Sounding Numbers
Paul Griffiths
1:30 p.m.
Introduction to Harawi
Paul Griffiths

Recital (Harawi, Song of Love & Death)
Virginia Dupuy (mezzosoprano), Shields-Collins Bray (accompanist)

3:30 p.m.
Music Which Touches Everything and at the Same Time Touches God
Hans-Ola Ericsson
8 p.m.
Organ Recital in Lois Perkins Chapel
Hans-Ola Ericsson

Livre du Saint-Sacrement

February 4, 2000

9 a.m.
The Color of Sound and the Sound of Color: Messiaen's Synaesthetic World
Jonathan Bernard
10:30 a.m.
Birdsong in Catalogue d'Oiseaux: An Imitation of Nature?
Robert Sherlaw-Johnson
1:30 p.m.
The 20th Century Recovery of the Eschatological Vision: Reflections for the Millennium of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time and Elgar's Dreams of Gerontius
Jaroslav Pelikan
3:00 p.m.
Piano Recital
Robert Sherlaw-Johnson

Selections from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus and Catalogue d'Oiseaux

8:00 p.m.
Orchestra Concert in Alma Thomas Theater
Austin Symphony Orchestra - Peter Bay, conductor

L'Ascension

Immediately following: Organ Recital in Lois Perkins Chapel
Hans-Ola Ericsson

L'Ascension

All events in Alma Thomas Theater, unless otherwise noted.

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