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Meg Barnhouse
April 8, 2012
“Quartet For the End of Time,” premiered in Stalag VIII-A in Gorlitz, Germany (currently Zgorzelec, Poland) on Jan. 15, 1941, to an audience of about four hundred fellow prisoners of war and prison guards. Composer Olivier Messiaen, an inmate of the camp, later recalled of the occasion, “Never was I listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension.” The story of this music is an inspirational example of freedom and beauty rising in the midst of death and destruction, a fitting story for Easter Sunday.
Messiaen quartet:
clarinet: Vanguel Tangarov
violin: Beth Blackerby
cello: Sara Nelson
piano: Bryan Uecker
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