A Primer for Listening to Messiaen

[the_audient]

(Informal poll: do you pronounce it "prih-mer" or "pry-mer

Comments

[rhododactylus]

Sweetly stated. Is it wrong that the word 'marmoreal' makes me think of the Bosporus?

"Prih-mer," unless I'm referring to the film.

[the_audient]

It actually makes me think of lugubrious marmosets. Which is so overweeningly wrong you are at least comparatively right.