Ep. 21 - "Through the Looking Glass" --- Its 1974, and the great composers of the Western avant-garde continue to drift ever further apart. Stockhausen tours the globe and dreams of a life among the stars, Boulez becomes a world-renowned conductor, John Cage adds to his growing list of artistic pursuits, and György Ligeti settles down to a life as a teacher and begins planning his next moves as a composer. Much more composing and much more life is to come. We see Ligeti through dry spells and periods of great productivity. We see him deal with life and death in his own way. Then we see him to the end of his life, which ended much differently than it began. Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Like our Facebook page too! https://www.facebook.com/thegreatcomposerspodcast/ www.kevinnordstrom.com All music heard in this episode is by Ligeti unless otherwise noted. Most are short clips of the larger work. Please listen to the complete works (especially the the piano etudes and Hamburg Concerto!) after the episode. San Francisco Polyphony Tierkreis (Verison for clarinet, flute, trumpet, and piano)- K. Stockhausen Pli Selon Pli, Don - Pierre Boulez Music for Five - John Cage Hungarian Rock for Harpsichord "Overture" to Le Grand Macabre Monument, from "Three Pieces for Two Pianos" Horn Trio mvt. 2 Vivace molto ritmico Study for player piano no. 9 - Conlon Nancarrow Etude no. 13 L’esceliere du diable (The Devil’s Staircase) Sonata for Viola Solo - Kevin Nordstrom, viola - mvt. 2 "Loop" - mvt. 5 "Lamento" - mvt. 6 "Chaccone Chromatique" All materials used in this episode are meant for educational purposes only. Thank you for listening! BIBLIOGRAPHY György Ligeti Episodes 19-21 -Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, György Ligeti: of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2011 -Griffiths, Paul. The Contemporary Composers: György Ligeti. London: Robson Books, Ltd. 1983, -Haskins, Rob. John Cage. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2012. -Kerékfy, Márton. "A "New Music" from Nothing: György Ligeti's Musica ricercata" Studia Musicologica, Vol. 49, No. 3/4 (Sep., 2008). pp. 203-230. -Kurtz, Michael. trans. Richard Toop. Stockhausen: A Biography. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1994. -Morgan, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. -Nicholls, David. John Cage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. -Nordstrom, Kevin. "Transformation and Distortion: The Process of Variation in Ligeti's Viola Sonata" The Journal of the American Viola Society, vol. 33 no. 2 (Dec. 2017). -Peters, Günter and Schreiber, Mark. "'...How Creation is Composed': Spirituality in the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen" Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 37 no. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 96-131 -Peyser, Joan. Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma. New York: Schirmer Books, 1976. -Peyser, Joan. To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since The Rite of Spring. New York: Billboard Books, 1999. -Sebestyen, Victor. Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. -Steinitz, Richard. György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination. Boston: North Eastern University Press, 2003. -Toop, Richard. György Ligeti. Singapore: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999.
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