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The Ligeti 100 Festival begins on Monday at the Budapest Music Center, where world stars and leading music artists of contemporary Hungarian music will honor the memory of György Ligeti, who was born 100 years ago.
The Budapest Strings will pay tribute to Ligeti’s teacher at the Academy of Music at the opening concert of the week-long event, according to the press release.
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On Tuesday, the Italian Trio K will perform works by contemporary composers, on Thursday, the UMZE Chamber Ensemble will play homage pieces alongside emblematic works by Ligeti, while on Friday, the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson will perform works by György Kurtág.
On the last day of the festival, May 28, Ligeti’s birthday, a concert by the Ligeti Ensemble will feature new works by György Kurtág and Péter Eötvös interpreted by András Keller and Gergely Vajda, while on May 23 György Kurtág, two-time Kossuth Prize winner and pianist, will commemorate Ligeti’s figure with personal stories in a discussion moderated by music historian Gergely Fazekas.
The Opus Jazz Club offers contemporary jazz with the Modern Art Orchestra and the Miklós Lukács Cimbiózis Trio, the Moment’s Notice Trio, and new performances by Lukas Ligeti, Saso Vollmaier, Máté Pozsár, and Dániel Szabó.
Lukas Ligeti, the son of the composer. Foto: Lukas Ligeti Facebook
In the BMC Library, students from the Electronic Music and Media Arts program at the Academy of Music will perform works inspired by Ligeti, while composer Marcell Dargay will introduce the audience to the relationship between film and music through Ligeti’s music in 2001: A Space Odyssey and other works.
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“Ligeti constantly raised questions in his compositions, for himself, for his environment and for posterity,” the press release quotes musician László Gőz, who emphasizes that the questions provoke a variety of reactions that are not only to be understood as new interpretations of Ligeti’s works, but also as a further reflection on the new paths he called “aberrations.” The week-long Ligeti 100 Festival therefore offers a great variety of program concepts, he continued.
via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/BMC – Budapest Music Center Facebook