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BOOKFAIR - Saturday, Sept. 11 - ALL DAY!
(extended online until 9/17)
JOHN MCMULLEN BOOKSIGNING
Saturday, September 11 - 2:00 p.m.
As part of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra/Barnes & Noble Bookfair,
local author and teacher John McMullen will be on hand to sign copies of his newly published book:
"The Miracle of Stalag 8A - Beauty Beyond the Horror:
Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time".
Description of the book:
The Miracle of Stalag 8A is the fascinating story of Olivier Messiaen's composition of his Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag 8A in Gorlitz, Germany, during the Second World War. Four French prisoners of war collaborate to create musical history in the most unlikely of places: a German Prison camp. The enigmatic Messiaen, an avant-garde composer-pianist and also a devout Catholic, along with Etienne Pasquier, an agnostic cellist, Henri Akoka, a Jewish Trotskyite clarinetist, and Jean le Boulaire, an atheistic violinist, become the famous quartet of Stalag 8A. The first performance of the Quartet for the End of Time at Stalag 8A in January 1941 has become, in the words of Paul Griffiths, "one of the great stories of twentieth-century music". - From the Publisher
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Get your copy signed September 11th! Mention the Philharmonic at time of purchase and a portion of your sale will be donated to the orchestra! Click here to download the flier/voucher.
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