October 27, 2003
Washington Post
The musical highlights of this first evening were two: Gyorgy Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna," a work for a cappella chorus that was sung by the Los Angeles Master Chorale under the direction of Grant Gershon, and the concluding "Rite of Spring," led by the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen. The Ligeti is a glorious, meticulous smearing of sound, its tone clusters paradoxically buzzing and bell-like. More
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