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Papillon, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, 9:15 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m.; and Stalag 17, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, 7 and 12 p.m., Sunday...
JUST AFTER the fall of France in 1940, the Germans seized composer Olivier Messaien and took him to a concentration camp in desolate Silesia. Confined in Stalag VIII, undernourished and brutalized, he created perhaps his greatest piece the Quartet for the End of Time. He wrote it for the few available musicians and with them performed it there in the barracks...
...lack of food in the Stalag had caused Messaien to have a hallucination of "the rainbow of the Angel amid strange shifting colors"--the destroying angel from the Book of Revelations who announces the "end of time" at the apocalypse. This vision, embodying the extreme terror of the end of the world and the perfect peace that must follow is the essence of this remarkable piece. With his highly individual blend of Hindu rhythms, natural sounds like bird songs, and suggestive harmonic textures. Messaien has created music of the greatest emotional power that is at the same time an expression...
...heart of Kingston on a conspicuous compound containing both trial chambers and prison cells. With its guard towers and barbed-wire fences painted bloodred, the "rehabilitation center" looks like a Hollywood back-lot version of a World War II concentration camp. Some Kingston residents even refer to it as "Stalag...
Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 with William Holden and Otto Preminger, Friday, March...