Word: ligeti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...otherworldly compositions of French musique concrète, which utilizes natural sounds taped and glued together in weirdly unnatural order. The resident composers at the Cologne studio tend to abandon natural sound in favor of sounds artificially manufactured on tape. Represented at the demonstration were Hungarian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 34, whose Articulation consisted of a series of blips and plops dramatically relieved by an occasional electronic belch, and Composer Gottfried Michael Koenig, 32, whose Essay punctuated its eerie, sustained sonorities with harplike electronic roulades. But the high point of the afternoon was a 12½-minute work by 30-year...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Mendelssohn's Elijah, sung by Desire Ligeti and the Westminster Choir...