Messiaen: Quartour pour la Fin du Temps

MUSIC

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
8:00 PM

Anzû Quartet
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum HIll, Brooklyn

$25 advance; $30 door
https://roulette.org/event/mary-halvorson-amaryllis-and-belladonna/

An all-star quartet performs Messiaen's astonishing piece, composed in a Nazi POW camp for the clarinet-violin-cello-piano (the composer's own) instrumentation that was available there. Without wanting to sound too stupid about it, this is as good as music gets.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You KNOW I'm gonna send you down the block to Kind of Soul.