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Saturday July 21st, 2007
I am practicing Messiaen, not by candlelight, but in the dark save for a little desklight. It is a dim enough atmosphere so that the haunting music of Quatour pour le Fin du Temps here in this remote house outside Santa Fe is freaking me out. I keep looking behind me at the stairs expecting to see some archangel with wings spread coming to take me away from this life into eternity. Perhaps I’ve been practicing the final violin solo movement too much, Jesus’s ascension to his father. I sure don’t feel like Jesus ascending while I struggle to hold these eternally long notes in the stratosphere of the violin register. I could use some divine help. Or perhaps this is how Jesus felt and Messiaen intended for the violinist to feel a similar struggle? In which case I shouldn’t practice this at all and so suffer painfully on stage in a very sincere expression of Messiaen’s intention? To grapple with such a sophisticated interpretive question is why I have studied, practiced, and lived all of these years. And yet I have no answer. To struggle or not to struggle? Perhaps I should continue practicing so that at least I have the option of deciding.
On a serious note the Quartet for the End of Time is a remarkably mystical and spiritual piece that you should experience in the concert hall. Messiaen places listeners in a spell with the colors and harmonies representing rainbows reaching up to the heavens and with his otherworldly birdcalls. Other times Messiaen strikes fear into our hearts with the sheer power of sound representing the Apocalypse. And most extraordinary is his representation and manipulation of Time through the varying of speeds of his rhythmic drones and at times the destruction of the regular meter that normally provides us with a comfortable structure. The solo cello and violin movements are the most transcendent of all. In the cello movement the steady 1/16th notes played by the piano slow my heart rate to that of a meditative state. And in the violin movement that closes the piece the piano’s hopelessly slow but steady rhythm creates a timelessness, an eternity that seems to last far longer than the piece’s last sounds.
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