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Quatour pour la fin du temps

July 27, 2023, 8:00 pm

Olivier Messiaen (Photo: Rob Croes / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Season Finale: Pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Leila Josefowicz, cellist Paul Watkins, and clarinetist Carol McGonnell perform Olivier Messiaen’s haunting “Quatour pour la fin du temps” (Quartet for the End of Time).

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Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano (1940-41)
Kirill Gerstein, piano; Leila Josefowicz, violin; Paul Watkins, cello; Carol McGonnell, clarinet

Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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Quatour pour la fin du temps

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