Messiaen centenary conference, June 2008, Birmingham UK

[Sean]

I live 10 miles away so I'll be going, if I'm around.

http://www.conservatoire.bcu.ac.uk/messiaen

[Guido]

I would have loved to have attended, but I think I'll be on an 8-10 geology trip to America then...

[HARPER_JT]

This looks good. I see that one of the speakers is Claude Samuel, author of Music and Color, which is considered a definitive source of information about Messiaen's personal views and opinions.

[Sean]

Hi John, hope you're alright there. Yes I'd like to go to this one, however I do have a work placement abroad coming up so I'm not sure how that's going to work out yet. I did look at the book you mention once- there are records of conversations with Messiaen if I remember. Peter Hill's there too.