Music as a Mirror of History Season 1 Episode 24 Crumb: Black Angels (1970)
- TV-PG
- November 1, 2016
- 50 min
Conclude with George Crumb€™s passionate anti-war string quartet. Trace the backdrop of its writing in the political climate and policy decisions that led the U.S. into the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Observe how the attempted U.S. policy of €œcontainment€ unraveled tragically in the face of the implacable will of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.