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Lukas Ligeti: That Which Has Remained …
by Mark Corroto
That Which Has Remained ... documents a sound installation created by composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The concert performance premiered in November 2015 at a location that was once the Warsaw Ghetto. It was followed by this recording the next day at the Polish National Radio studio. Ligeti, artist in residence at the POLAN Museum, explored Jewish life in Eastern Europe through recorded interviews with residents aged 20 to 98. The participants ...
read moreFranz Koglmann: Lo-lee-ta: Music on Nabokov
by Eyal Hareuveni
Viennese composer and trumpeter Franz Koglmann is a well-known commuter between the arts and modern chamber jazz. His subtle, sophisticated compositions create a set of mirrors that reflect a distinct artistic mean: literature on Make Believe (Between the Lines, 1999), inspired by Jean Cocteau; poetry on O Moon My Pin-Up (hatOLOGY, 1997), inspired by Ezra Pound and Fear Death By Water (Between the Lines, 2003), dedicated to poetry of T.S. Elliot; cinematic images on Venus In Transit (Between the Lines, ...
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