MUSIC
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
7:30 PM

Founders: Songs for the End of Time
Five Boroughs Music Festival
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$25-$45; $15 students/seniors
http://5bmf.org/founders/

This may sound disastrous: a sort of neo-baroque/folk/jazz/pop crossover songwriting chamber ensemble does an arrangement of Messiaen's titanic Quartet for the End of Time (as if you could possibly improve on one of the most transporting, distinctive, and oddly beautiful pieces of music in the Western canon) and then a bunch of songs responding to it. But I say, hey let's give it a chance.

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