Food for thought

A few good lines from: Remembering the genius who Stanley Kubrick stole music from. – By Jan Swafford – Slate Magazine

it hadn’t occurred to me that the avant-garde and the comic could cohabitate.

Ligeti had his own singular and unpredictable parameters. Sometimes he’s almost alarmingly funny, other times mesmerizing, uncanny, hyperbolic, touching, ironic—all the good stuff music used to do.