It’s still hard for me to hear this piece without a sense of foreboding. At the time, Crumb was one of the new voices in composition and Black Angels one of his most chaotic works. Sometime this week when you’re feeling particularly sane, stable and able to withstand the fury of unfiltered musical horror, devote 20 minutes of focused attention on George Crumb’s “Black Angels.” Crumb, whose death was announced Sunday, was one of the most important composers of the 20th century, and “Black Angels” is his thrilling 1971 masterpiece.ĭavid Bowie listed Black Angels on a 2003 Vanity Fair list of his favorite albums, calling it “a study in spiritual annihilation” and adding, “I heard this piece for the first time in the darkest time of my own ‘70s, and it scared the bejabbers out of me. It’s a composition that “scared the bejabbers” out of David Bowie the first time he heard it.
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