![]() ![]() Each is different and some of them had the same intense rhythmic drive I admired in the horn trio. The String Quartet No.1 is about 20 minutes long and divided into 12 movements which are very short accordingly. My interest in Ligeti’s music was enlivened this year by a performance of his horn trio at the AFCM Townsville, but a CD I bought of this trio disappointed. The program opened with a performance of Gyorgy Ligeti’s String Quartet No. The performance I heard on 21 November demonstrated the quartet’s great commitment to and understanding of contemporary music. The principal artists were the Pacifica String Quartet, which I was interested to hear as I recently purchased their CD of two of the string quartets of Eliot Carter, which I plan to use, if time permits, to see if listening to Carter as a stream of consciousness, (an idea discussed by David Robertson in his recent Stuart Challenger lecture) helps at all with this difficult music. The program ingeniously included three fairly short works with a numerous short movements. ![]() "The Place Where People Meet to Seek the Highest is Holy Ground" The seating in the hall is in two levels in a semi circular formation around a low stage. They had to extend the hire of some percussion which was on the stage on Friday but not used. I walked past that night and saw the fire trucks and concert goers milling about, but didn’t learn the concert had been cancelled and rescheduled until an announcement at the beginning of the concert on November 21. It was lucky I didn’t chose the first concert on November 20 as this was cancelled following a small fire in the basement. I heard one of a program of four concerts given under the title “Night Fantasies”. Robert Oppenheimer the subject of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, which I saw at the Met earlier in November, attended school at the Society for Ethical Culture, so it was appropriate that the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center was performing there during the renovations of Alice Tully Hall.
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