A few minutes after 1 this Friday afternoon, Paul Jacobs will sit down at the organ of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and begin to play music by Olivier Messiaen.
The composer George Benjamin and the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard met as students. In a new piece, they perform at the keyboard together. By Joshua Barone Loriod, the vessel for Olivier Messiaen’s ...