C7 Ligeti100

In collaboration with the ANU School of Music

12pm – 1.30pm  Ligeti100: the words

A free public lecture by Andrew Ford, presented by ANU School of Music

Andrew Ford, celebrated composer, author and presenter of the weekly Music Show on Radio National, has interviewed musicians and composers across the planet for decades. For this centenary event he looks back upon the extraordinary creative output of Ligeti and what it all means now.

 

2pm – 3pm  Ligeti100: the music

A concert, in collaboration with the ANU School of Music

“First of all I listen to music. I like music” –  György Ligeti

The Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti wrote some of the most striking music of the late 20^th century. Immortalised through connections with film, dance and theatre, it includes the haunting theme to Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Rooted in the Hungarian folk idioms, his early work was inspired by Bartok, but as he left Hungary behind, Ligeti began exploring new instrumental colours and textures with quasi-cinematic sound clouds. Over time, meticulous rhythmic and modal patterns created a sense of balance and action.

The Ligeti Piano Etudes have become a testing ground for modern pianists, while his Second String Quartet is a beacon of modernism. It takes intrepid performers such as Edward Neeman and the Alma Moodie Quartet to tackle such music. Expect dare-devil virtuosity alongside in-the-moment musical responses from improvisers such as Miroslav Bukovsky and John Mackey.

Presented in collaboration with the ANU School of Music, this Ligeti anniversary event features the community of creative musicians fostered by this world-class institution

 “I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape” György Ligeti from a lecture at the New England Conservatory in 1993

 

Program

György Sándor Ligeti  (1923-2006)

The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea

Continuum (1968)

Three Piano Etudes, from Études pour piano, Book 1

Désordre (Disorder)
Arc-en-ciel (Rainbow)
Automne à Varsovie (Autumn in Warsaw)

Ligeti re-mix

String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

Allegro nervosa
Sostenuto, molto calmo
Come un meccanismo de precision
Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
Allegro con delicatezza

Ligeti Re-mix

The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea

 

Artists

Edward Neeman, piano

Fletcher Cox, trumpet

Donald Nicolson, harpsichord

Alma Moodie Quartet

Miroslav Bukovsky and John Mackey with Aron Ottignon

 

This concert is supported by Teresa Neeman