How ‘Mozart In The Jungle’ Brought Messiaen – Messiaen! – To Rikers Island

A plot point in the Amazon comedy series led the producers to take an entire orchestra and complex sound system out to the New York City prison complex and play a program that ranged from Quartet for the End of Time (a piece written in, and for, a prison camp) to (this was brave) the Turangalîla Symphony.