Word: ligeti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salonen's goals include introducing more contemporary music to the orchestra's staid programs -- a recent concert included two works by Gyorgy Ligeti, with the avant-garde Hungarian composer present -- and splitting the orchestra up into smaller, more flexible ensembles suited to the music of the classical period. Such notions are a marketing department's nightmare, but Salonen is adamant: "The orchestra must be a source of enlightenment." After 11 years of the saintly Carlo Maria Giulini and the ineffectual Andre Previn, the Philharmonic is ready for a youthquake. But even though Salonen is its youngest conductor since Zubin Mehta...