Saturday, April 3, 2010
{ 12:30:00 AM }
The darkness prevails for long stretches of time, but the light always returns, inextinguishable, more powerful than before. The alteration of these opposing forces creates, in effect, a kind of five-part rondo form (light-darkness-light-darkness-light). Just as Charles Ives did more than a century ago, Angels in the Architecture poses the unanswered question of existence. It ends as it began: the angel reappears singing the same comforting words. But deep below; a final shadow appears -- distantly, ominously.
