The three stages of this voyage are Departure (fall from grace), Absence (spiritual annihilation), and Return (redemption). It was thirty years ago today: Kronos Quartets album Black Angels, featuring composer George Crumb’s title piece, was released on Nonesuch Records.Kronoss connection to the piece dates back to the ensembles origins when, in 1973, violinist David Harrington was inspired to form the group after hearing the highly unorthodox work.
Support for this project has been provided by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The image of the ‘black angel’ was a conventional device used by early painters to symbolize the fallen angel. Previously, Crumb employed combinations of both amplified. This event is part of Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90 Violin I, Electric Violin II, Electric Viola, and Electric Cello. Honored by numerous institutions with honorary Doctorates, and the recipient of dozens of awards and prizes, Crumb makes his home just outside of Philadelphia, in the same house where he and his wife of more than sixty years raised their three children. A shy, yet warmly eloquent personality, Crumb retired from his teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania after more than thirty years of service. Many of Crumb’s works include programmatic, symbolic, mystical and theatrical elements, which are often reflected in his beautiful and meticulously notated scores. Crumb’s music often juxtaposes contrasting musical styles, ranging from music of the western art-music tradition, to hymns and folk music, to non-Western musics. Jessica Thompson, viola, Thomas Kraines, celloīowerbird, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music, and the Annenberg Center are pleased to present Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90, a three concert festival celebrating more than seventy years of music by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Crumb. The Daedalus Quartet performs Crumb’s Vietnam War-haunted Black Angels for amplified string quartet, “a work of frightening intensity, where Jimi Hendrix and Pierrot Lunaire shake hands with the devil.” A selection of Crumb’s early music rounds out the picture of this essential American artist’s lengthy career.Ī Little Suite For Christmas, 1979, A.
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