The 1985 Kyoto Prize Workshops

LaJournée avec Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

/　　Composer

Arts and Philosophy

Music

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1985

11 /12 Tue

10:00 - 16:55

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

Chairperson	Makoto Moroi Member, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Composer

10:00

Introductory Remarks	Kazuo Inamori President, The Inamori Foundation

10:03

Opening Remarks	Toru Yano Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Kyoto University

10:10

Speech	“Religion and Philosophy in the Music of Messiaen” Takeshi Umehara Member, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences

10:30

Lecture	“Téchnique de mon Language Musical -après 1945-” Olivier Messiaen Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences

12:00

13:00

Speech	“The Position of Messiaen in the Music of France” Kazuyuki Toyama Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Music Critic

13:15

Commemorative Performance	Extracts from: “Vingt Regards sur L’enfant Jsus” Piano: Yvonne Loriod

13:55

14:00

Symposium	“Olivier Messiaen and the Music of the 20th Century” Coordinator: Takashi Funayama Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences: Professor, Tokyo University of Arts Panelist: Kuniharu Akiyama Professor, Tama College of Art Akimichi Takeda Assistant Professor, Masashino College Music Eisei Tsujii Professor, Soai University Kunio Toda Professor, Senzoku Gakuen University Masaaki Niwa Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Toho College of Music

Symposium

“Olivier Messiaen and the Music of the 20th Century”

Coordinator:
Takashi Funayama
Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences:
Professor, Tokyo University of Arts

Panelist:
Kuniharu Akiyama
Professor, Tama College of Art
Akimichi Takeda
Assistant Professor, Masashino College Music
Eisei Tsujii
Professor, Soai University
Kunio Toda
Professor, Senzoku Gakuen University
Masaaki Niwa
Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Toho College of Music

15:30

15:45

Praise for Messiaen I	Greetings: H.Puig-Rogét Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Arts Sadao Bekku Professor, Chuo University Toru Takemitsu Composer

16:15

Praise for Messiaen II	Performance: “Visions de l’amen” for Two Pianos Piano: Kaori Kimura Kazuoki Fujii

16:45

Praise for Messiean III	Hans Åstland Secretary-General, Swedish Royal Academy of Music

16:55

Closing Remarks	Makoto Moroi

Laureates

Olivier Messiaen

Composer

The greatest music composer of the 20th century. His music is the freely embraced non-classical position, which attempted to bring contemporary expression to Catholicism. Among his masterpieces are “Catalogue d’Oiseaux,” and “La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ.”

*This category then was Category of Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.

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date: Tuesday, November 12, 1985 9：30～17：00
place: Kyoto International Conference Center