Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time
Fri, Jan 24
|New York City/Morristown, NJ/Watchung, NJ
Min Kwon and CME Young Artists perform the exquisite Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen in various venues!
Time & Location
Jan 24, 2020, 7:00 PM
New York City/Morristown, NJ/Watchung, NJ
About The Event
Friday, January 24 at 7pm: Piano on Park, New York City
Saturday, January 25 at 7:30pm: St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ
Sunday, January 26 at 3pm: Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ.
Celebrated chamber musicians Min Kwon, Siwoo Kim, Ari Evan and Graeme Steele Johnson present a rare all-Messiaen program, chronicling the amazing story of the Quartet and its construction through performance and discussion, and also featuring a re-imagined version of his Vocalise-Étude for clarinet and piano. Olivier Messiaen was the sum of so many powerful influences: he was synesthetic, and saw colors when he heard chords; he was obsessed with birds, had them stuffed all over his apartment walls and spent hours at a time studying their songs; he was pioneering and meticulously mathematical in his approach to rhythm; and he was a devout Catholic, and played organ in a Paris church for over 60 years, right up…