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...Polyphonia” then quickly moved through ten vignettes, set to piano music by György Ligeti. The technique of the dancers was flawless despite their complex combinations of solos, duets, and quartets. Dazzling turns, explosive leaps, and abrupt, arresting endings characterized this exquisite performance...
DIED. Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, Hungarian avant-garde composer whoin spite of his staunch refusal to seek popular acceptancegained global fame when, unknown to him, Stanley Kubrick used his music in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving him a new fan base of trippy, psychedelic teens; in Vienna. As a young composer, he was afraid to write down the modern pieces he heard in his head for fear of government retaliation ("totalitarian regimes do not like dissonances," he wrote). After escaping communist Hungary, he wrote polyphonous, unpredictably paced concertos, chamber pieces and other works, including one opera, Le Grand...
Wheeldon's true breakout began in 2001 with Polyphonia, a dazzlingly imaginative suite set to the jagged piano music of contemporary Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Other companies and other styles soon beckoned. There was a richly rendered A Midsummer Night's Dream for Denver's Colorado Ballet; another spiky, witty Ligeti work, Continuum, for the San Francisco Ballet; a fairy-tale treatment of Stravinsky's Firebird for the Boston Ballet. Like Balanchine before him, Wheeldon ventured onto Broadway, creating dances for the 2002 musical Sweet Smell of Success. It was a dud, but it led to a collaboration with Success...
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...
Composers String Quartet. The Fromm Foundation sponsors quartets by Schuller (1957), Shifrin (1972), and Ligeti (1968). Free. Sunday, February...