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Salon Séance creates experiential concerts based on the idea that performing is an act of channeling. Together with the audience, they tell timeless human stories through music, storytelling, and interactive ritual, cultivating a sense of connection and meaning that is unique for each audience member.

The group will perform for us their presentation, The End of Time which combines music, storytelling, and origami to channel the spirits of four prisoners who transformed an ending into a new beginning.  Allow the medium to deliver their messages and guide you to them through the music they created together: Olivier Messiaens’ Quartet for the End of Time. 

Salon Séance

This project is made possible, in part, through funding
from Dutchess Tourism, Inc. and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson

and

Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund
of the Community Foundations of 
the Hudson Valley

Salon Séance:
The End of Time
An experiential concert created by Salon Séance

Olivier Messiaen (1908 –1992)
Quartet for the End of Time (1940 –1941)
I. Liturgie de cristal
II. Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du temps
III. Abîme des oiseaux
IV. Intermède
V. Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus
VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
VII. Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du temps
VIII. Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus

Created by Mari Lee
Directed by Jay Stull
Sound design by John Gasper
Lighting design by Guillermo Laporta
Research by Simon Angseop Lee

Nile Assata Harris, actor
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Henry Kramer, piano
Mari Lee, violin
Mihai Marica, cello

Source Material: Rischin, Rebecca. For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Updated Edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

No program notes will be provided as requested by the artist.

Salon Séance

Founded by Mari Lee and Simon Lee, Salon Séance creates experiential concerts based on the idea that performing is an act of channeling. Together with our audiences, we channel timeless human stories through music, storytelling, and interactive ritual, cultivating a sense of connection and meaning that is unique to each person.  Developed in collaboration with world-class performers, directors, designers, and researchers, Salon Séance’s experiences have been presented by leading arts organizations in the US and Europe.  Salon Séance has won several awards including Tarisio’s Young Artists Grants and Britten-Pears Foundation’s Britten Award.

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