Music for the End of Time.Music for the End of Time Jen Bryant, author; Beth Peck, illustrator Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company “Eerdmans” redirects here. For the Dutch politician, see Joost Eerdmans. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 255 Jefferson Avenue, S.E., Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , MI 49503 0802852297 $17.00 1-800-253-7521 www.eerdmans.com Music for the End of Time is a children's picturebook based on the true story of French composer Olivier Messiaen Olivier Messiaen (IPA: [mɛsjɑ̃]; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. , who was captured by the Germans during World War II and sent to a prison camp in Gorlitz (now part of Poland). Despite the bleak living conditions living conditions npl → condiciones fpl de vida living conditions npl → conditions fpl de vie living conditions living , he received the gift of a small miracle--the opportunity to write music again. With the aid of three fellow musicians also taken prisoner, the song of a beautiful nightingale nightingale, common name for a migratory Old World bird of the family Turdidae (thrush family), celebrated for its vocal powers. The common nightingale of England and Western Europe, Luscinia megarhynchos, is about 6 1-2 in. (16. , and the permission of a German officer, he was able to compose and play the now-famous "Quartet for the End of Time", in a performance appreciated like no other by his fellow prisoners. The emotionally touching pastel illustrations add the perfect quality to this simple story about keeping hope alive in the darkness. Betsy L. Hogan Reviewer |
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