NOVUS NY Renewal: Transcendence
On November 16, at 6:30pm, in Trinity Church, Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, presents groundbreaking French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Inspired by the biblical Book of Revelation, Messiaen wrote this piece while he was interned as a German prisoner of war during the Second World War. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers will narrate the concert with excerpts from his book Orfeo. Free.
On November 16, at 6:30pm, in Trinity Church, Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, presents groundbreaking French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Inspired by the biblical Book of Revelation, Messiaen wrote this piece while he was interned as a German prisoner of war during the Second World War. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers will narrate the concert with excerpts from his book Orfeo. Free.
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