The music crystallized the composer’s uncanny ability to project ferocity and the beatific in the same voice. It was into this lurid zeitgeist that George Crumb’s amplified string quartet "Black Angels" was premiered. It was, above all else, the ongoing nightmare of Vietnam that engulfed the national consciousness, casting a huge shadow over virtually all human intercourse. and Robert Kennedy, as well as the immolations of American black inner-city neighborhoods, hovered darkly, acridly, in the air. Memories of the recent assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.Ĭomposer George Crumb goes to war with "Black Angels."īy Peter Burwasser | Photo by Michael T. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper.
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