Ligeti’s son rises as professor in Brussels
NewsThe Royal Conservatory of Brussels has appointed Lukas Liketi as Professor of Composition, starting immediately.
Lukas, 59, lives in Miami and will commute monthly until he moves to Belgium next year.
He is an Austrian percussionist and composer, focussed on African polyrhythms. He has previously been resident artist at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
photo: Ian-Elfinn Rosiu/RCB
And how does Ligeti’s son sound?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNr8ao-WCFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Spl_D0N4V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0le1dKDg-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2me14izlA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omqcUee6Fsc
It is the ‘cultivation’ of his father’s interest in the polyrhythms of West-African percussion ensembles, but (mostly) without the intervallic dimension. It’s rhythmic process music, so popular in the Western new music scene since Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ from those happy Californian sixties of the last century.
Of course Western young people, who never go to a concert of ‘classical music’ but crave for the life of a ‘composer’, and who have only pop in their ears, will flock to Brussels.
Isn’t this the same guy who is blocking his father’s works from publication?
Ligeti himself gave Fredrik Ullén permission to perform works such as ‘L’arrache-cœur’, but after his death the family apparently forced the recording to be pulled.