“Godzilla,” currently rampaging through cinemas around the world, is the latest movie to resurrect Japan’s most fearsome monster creation. The recent Hollywood blockbuster, directed by Gareth Edwards, ...

Concerts, talks and foyer events celebrated Ligeti in his centenary year. With pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at its heart, it was a day that underlined the composer’s extraordinary music and unique ...

György Ligeti, a Hungarian composer whose witty, inventive and intricately beautiful creations made him one of the most important musical figures of the second half of the 20th century, died Monday at ...

This year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the 100th birthday of the late György Ligeti, one of the 20th century’s most influential and legendary composers. As part of the festivities, ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, a musical giant respected for his ability to simultaneously honor and modernize musical traditions and a cult pop figure whose work was used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” to evoke ...

Millions of people have heard the music of Gyorgy Ligeti, although most wouldn't recognize -- or know how to pronounce -- his name. The music of Ligeti (lig-it-tee, without an accent), who died ...

Blues legend B.B. King and Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti have each been selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music to receive the prestigious 2004 Polar Music Prize. Sweden's King Carl… By ...

Driver’s recording of Ligeti’s virtuosity-testing Études is full of insight and exuberance The studies that György Ligeti composed in the last two decades of his life are the most important additions ...

Most classical musicians get their start at an early age. You know the story: They spend their youth training, in front of a piano, with some gray-haired instructor barking over them. Lukas Ligeti ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a friend and collaborator of Ligeti, is helping the New York Philharmonic observe the centennial of his birth. By ...

On November 7 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the liberal revolution led by Imre Nagy. The populace took cover in basements to avoid the gunfire and shellbursts – but one man had ...