Trajal Harrell: Quartet for the End of Time October 16, 2008

Moved by the story of Olivier Messiaen's survival of WWII and the legendary creation of the 'Quartet for the End of Time' during Messiaen's imprisonment in a Nazi war camp, Trajal Harrell brings us his quartet of the same name. Reframed as a "hoochie-koochie" show of moving bodies, film, video, photography, sound, and architecture, this work asks, "is it possible to present sincerity in today's ironic culture?".