Gyorgy “Ligeti has a unique place in the history of 20th-century music: an avant-gardist who is familiar to a wide public (even if he has Stanley Kubrick’s use of his music in 2001 to thank for that popularity), and an uncompromising modernist whose music revels in its connections with other cultures, other art forms, and the music of earlier centuries.”
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Miles Davis Raw…Is It Fair?
In 1970, Miles Davis was “clean and healthy and at the height of his powers.” He made a set of recordings in which he tested out music. But the recordings were never meant to be released, and now that they are, some Davis fans are angry. “The set offers unprecedented insights into the musical intelligence that went into the album’s creation. But with mistakes and doodles included in the mix, are these private explorations really for public consumption decades later?”