Concerts, talks and foyer events celebrated Ligeti in his centenary year. With pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at its heart, it was a day that underlined the composer’s extraordinary music and unique ...

"It's one of those landmark pieces," says Anthony Brandt, president of Musiqa, the contemporary music ensemble run by composers at Rice University and the University of Houston. "It created a riot ...

When the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive says goodbye to its Brutalist 1960s building on Bancroft Way on Sunday, Dec. 21, before occupying its smart, new home on Center Street, the last ...

When/where: Tonight, Friday, and Saturday; various times and venues. Tickets: Free to $20; festival pass $25. Call 250-385-6515; Friday tickets also online at ...

A forthcoming performance of Ligeti's Poème Symphonique will require 100 metronomes, and the Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall want donations. The Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall are ...

At least initially, the black-and-white video looks like any other musical event of the time. The well-dressed audience members applaud politely as the musicians walk solemnly onto the stage. A ...

Streaming platforms for György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

"That must have been very atmospheric." commented a fellow audience member at the Ligeti experience who'd not been able to get to the Kolesnikov/Tsoy special (I'd been equally ruefull not to have been ...

Gyorgy Ligeti was, along with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez, one of a group of composers which revolutionised postwar music. Rejecting classical musical forms and creating ...

If you’re keeping a list of items that are disappearing from daily life, you might want to add the metronome. The ticking tempo-keeper that has been a staple of musicians’ lives for nearly two ...

Alex Ross on a musician who survived the apocalypse with his sense of humour intact Gyorgy Ligeti, the greatest of Transylvanian composers, once wrote a Poeme Symphonique for one hundred metronomes.

Video documentation of György Ligeti’s "Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes," presented by the 21st Century Consort on December 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol ...