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Ligeti from Coast to Coast

Apr. 05, 2018

Ligeti from Coast to Coast

Last month, New Yorkers were treated to two excellent performances of György Ligeti’s music: first, in downtown Brooklyn March 8-11, 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet, in a revival of the long-lost original 1975 choreography by Anna Sokolow with dancers from the Sokolow Dance Ensemble followed shortly after by the intrepid musicians of Alarm Will Sound performing an all-Ligeti concert to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall titled “This Music Should Not Exist” on March 16.

Looking ahead, audiences throughout the United States have a number of diverse and noteworthy performances of Ligeti’s music to look forward to as well. On April 6-7 members of the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of conductor and curator, Patrick Dupré Quigley, perform a "SoundBox" concert that includes Ligeti’s Ramifications for 12 strings as well as his Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, featuring soprano Lauren Stouffer, mezzo-soprano, Virginia Warnken, and Cameron Beauchamp, bass. The eclectic program also includes Baroque favorites by Bach, Handel, and Monteverdi, as well as Luciano Berio’s arrangement of Bach’s “Contrapunctus XIX” from The Art of Fugue, transcribed for 23 instruments.


(Ramifications/Ligeti/Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Per Kristian Skalstad, conductor)

On April 12 and 14 at BRIC Arts and Media in NYC, Brooklyn-based ensemble The Knights explore the wide influence of Eastern European folk music, from traditional tunes set by Romani folk musicians to modernity. The program includes a world premiere arrangement of Ligeti’s Hungarian Rock (originally composed for harpsichord) by Knights horn player, Michael P. Atkinson. The Knights repeat this program in Washington D.C. at Dumbarton Oaks on April 15-16.

On April 14, the Seattle Modern Orchestra, under conductor Julia Tai, performs the Seattle premiere of Ligeti’s Melodien at The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center. 


(Melodien/György Ligeti/London Sinfonietta/David Atherton)

On April 19 and 21 the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra partners with the Strasenburgh Planetarium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center to present “The Planets: an HD Odyssey” at the Eastman School of Music's Kodak Theater. Renowned Houston Symphony Conductor Emeritus Hans Graf leads this space-themed program which kicks off with Ligeti's Atmosphères, famously used in Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey." 



(Atmosphères/György Ligeti/Radion sinfoniaorkesteri/Hannu Lintu, conductor)

Finally, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, led by Christopher Warren-Green, performs Ligeti’s Melodien on April 27-28 at the Belk Theater.

To learn more about György Ligeti, please visit schott-music.com.


György Ligeti
10 Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
15’

Atmosphères (1961)
for orchestra
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9'

Hungarian Rock (1978)
for harpsichord
5'

Melodien (1971)
for orchestra
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13’

Ramifications (1968-69)
for string orchestra
or 12 solo strings
9'

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