The Friday Morning Listen
Written by Mark Saleski
Published April 09, 2004
Published April 09, 2004
Part of Friday Morning Listen
Quartet For The End Of Time - Olivier Messiaen
Moments of sheer beauty and tenderness sometimes pop out of the most unexpected circumstances. One of them was surely Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time.
This morning I happened across an article about the composition. The very short story on this is that Messiaen composed it during his 'stay' at prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 8-A. It was first performed there on January 15, 1941.
This got me to thinking about the current state of affairs in Iraq...wondering if right now the seed of some unimaginable artistic event is being planted.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:32PM to 1:37AM carving out music reviews and essays for Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and other publications.Keep reading for information and comments on this article, and add some feedback of your own!
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If so, it would be the only good thing coming out of this mess