Ligeti is Dead, Long Live Ligeti
I couldn't find an obituary that was worth supplying a link for, although the NY Times one struck me as rather wretched.
The list of old people that are still alive grows another name smaller:
Babbitt
Boulez
Carter
Kurtag
Schuller
(Stockhausen)
Am I missing anyone?
The list of old people that are still alive grows another name smaller:
Babbitt
Boulez
Carter
Kurtag
Schuller
(Stockhausen)
Am I missing anyone?
2 Comments:
I didn't think the NY Times obituary was bad. Paul Griffiths used to be a regular critic for the Times, but no longer; I don't know why this is no longer the case. He pays more attention, I think, to the old European avant-garde than most of the other writers they have on staff now. That might just be tastes in general changing.
Alex Ross has a nice short elegy and links to an evocative essay he wrote in the New Yorker in 2001.
More on Ligeti later. . .
p.s. You may have been in Boston too long if you've absorbed Gunther Schuller into your list of internationally notable old modernists. I mean, not that that's the only roll call to be on.
Sofia Gubaidulina is still alive and kicking, don't forget!
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