Karl Miller wrote:

>My perspective is that Le Sacre was the right piece at the right time.
>Its use of folk material is fairly well discussed.  The opening bassoon
>solo is a folk song, one used by Mussorgsky in Sorochinsky Fair...an
>aria which is introduced, not surprisingly, by a bassoon.

Messiaen said that the opening solo "should sound like a strangled
chicken".  I wonder if Messiaen with his love of bird song ever used
the strangled chicken motif in any of his works?

Tim Horwood