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Article: For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet.(Book Review)
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. By Rebecca Rischin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. [xi, 167 p. ISBN 0-8014-4136-6. $29.95.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index.
Upon learning of Rebecca Rischin's background as a professional clarinetist, one might be forgiven for assuming that her new book on Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, based on her 1997 D.M.A. essay, (Music for Eternity: a New History of Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time, D.M.A. diss., Florida State University, 1997) is yet another study of the technical innovations for which the piece is now famous. Nearly all such commentaries (Anthony ...