Oliver Messiaen’s life and work make the case that music and faith, when synthesized, can bring people through the darkest valleys. His most famous composition, Quatour pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time), was created in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. Given a pencil, music paper, and access to just four instruments by his German captors, he composed an homage to the Book of Revelation that was reportedly first performed by Messiaen and three other French POWs to a gathering of about 400 prisoners and Nazi officers on January 15, 1941. Now, 83 years later, the UNLV Chamber Music Society brings to life Messiaen’s dark and foreboding quartet for current generations of Las Vegans.