Friday, May 12, 2023, 7:30 pm - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
and George Crumb: Black Angels
Olivier Messiaen wrote "Quartet for the End of Time" while imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Black Angels, a work for “electric string quartet” by American composer George Crumb (b. 1929), pulls us into a terrifying, nightmarish soundscape. Completed in March, 1970, the piece has been associated with the apocalyptic zeitgeist of the Vietnam era. Both pieces explore concepts of synesthesia.