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...Strauss, Ligeti, & Sibelius
What: The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra presents a program including the works of Strauss, Ligeti, and Sibelius. Tickets for the performance are available at the Harvard Box Office...
...Janigro's study, more than a dozen neurosurgical patients, predominantly with Parkinson's, listened to three musical selections - rhythmic music with no discernible melody (by Gyorgi Ligeti, of Stanley Kubrick-movie fame), melodic music with undefined rhythm (by Aaron Jay Kernis, a Pulitzer Prize winner) and something in between (Ludwig van Beethoven). In the later stages of the research, to prevent familiarity from swaying the subjects' responses, music was specifically composed for the study by students from the Cleveland Institute of Music...
...felt like. His command of the material is so complete, and his guidance through it so gentle, that although some of the groupings he proposes seem opaque (“Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz;” “Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties”), with a little reading and a little faith the connections soon become clear.The effortless brilliance of his modular style is that, after building up one school of thought, he can quickly dismantle it and show which pieces became part of adjacent...
...Then, it was as if Ligeti put the situation on hold for several years. He wrote “Capriccio—Presto con Slancio,” the second movement of the piece, in 1953. With an invigorating prestissimo, Lipkind delivered the love-struck composer’s return to reality with notes that flew so quickly from the bow, it was as if a rustling wind blew into the room and ran with the scale...