4:00pm-6:50pm on Sunday 23 March
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Robinson College, Auditorium (talk) and Chapel (concert), Grange Road, CB3 9AN
This concert presents Messiaen’s extraordinary 'Quartet for the End of Time': it's a work that contemplates an apocalyptic vision of earth, sea and sky utterly recast, a radical transformation of our entire world, at once terrifying and inspiring. Composed in a WWII POW camp, the music acquires new and urgent layers of meaning as we confront existential environmental changes in our own time. A work that must be experienced live, it is performed here by four experienced Messiaen interpreters in the atmospheric setting of Robinson College Chapel. Also inspired by our fragile climate, music by Cambridge-based composers Cheryl Frances Hoad and Jeremy Thurlow completes the programme.
The concert will be preceded by a conversation on climate awareness and the arts featuring Zoe Svendsen (climate writer and director), Cheryl Frances Hoad (composer) and John Fanshawe (Cambridge Conservation Initiative), chaired by Iza Kavedžija (Department of Social Anthropology).
4.00 - 4.40pm (Robinson Auditorium): On the edge of time: Climate, Activism and the Arts
5.00 - 6.50 (including interval): Beyond Rainbows: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
Cheryl Frances Hoad, 'Cloud movements'
Jeremy Thurlow, 'After seven thunders'
Olivier Messiaen, 'Quartet for the End of Time'
Performers: Poppy Beddoe, clarinet; Henry Chandler, violin; Tim Lowe, cello; Jeremy Thurlow, piano.
