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“Soundstreams is presenting the first-ever staged performance of Musik für das Ende by Claude Vivier (1948-83).  Written in 1971 as a ceremony to be staged, the work did not have its first concert performance until 2012.  After seeing director Chris Abraham’s beautiful, extraordinarily moving production of the the piece for Soundstreams, it is impossible to think that it could ever be better imagined or performed.  It is a great work.  Why it should have taken this long for it to be produced as the composer wished is impossible to understand.  That it finally has been staged with such obvious passion and commitment is a cause for celebration.”

Read the full review here.