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New choral music: A creative community of virtuosic voices

New choral music: A creative community of virtuosic voicesNew choral music: A creative community of virtuosic voices

The Esoterics is a Seattle-based nonprofit vocal ensemble dedicated to performing 

contemporary a cappella music from around the world.

Welcome

The Esoterics acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe. 


The Esoterics also recognizes that white supremacy, racism, homophobia, and transphobia must come to an end, and we support efforts to reform policy to ensure a safe and equal existence for all Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), as well as for our entire LGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing a safe place for ALL people to connect, reflect, and heal.

UPCOMING EVENTS

GYÖRGY LIGETI CENTENNIAL

Join us as we celebrate one of choral music's modern masters

Born to Hungarian Jewish parents on 28 May 1923 in Transylvania (then in Romania, now in Hungary), György Ligeti was to become one of the most innovative and influential figures of the avant-garde and contemporary concert music in the latter twentieth century.


Best known in cinematic circles as the composer of Lux aeterna from Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A space odyssey, György Ligeti also wrote music that is featured in 2010, The shining, Eyes wide shut, Shutter Island, Heat, the 2014 remake of Godzilla, The killing of a sacred deer, and the radio series based on The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. His early choral music (from 1946 to 1956) is mostly modal or tonal, inspired by Hungarian folk texts, and is replete with polyphonic patter and verse forms.  Beginning in 1966 with his Lux aeterna, one is able to witness a second stage in Ligeti’s creative life – in which he employs arhythmic canons and modernist tone clusters to create fragmentary fantasies, extraordinary etudes, and a set of post-modern “nonsense songs.”


In this concert, The Esoterics will peform ALL of Ligeti’s music for a cappella mixed chorus – from his earliest work in 1946 to his last in 1993.  Please join us for this extraordinary choral event on the weekend before Ligeti’s 100th birthday!


CONCERT REPERTOIRE:


Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946)

Drei phantasien (Three fantasies) (1982)

Éjszaka (Night) (1955)

Haj, ifjuság! (Ah, youth!) (1951)

Hortobágy (Songs from Hortobágy) (1951)

Inaktelki nóták (Songs from Inaktelke) (1953)
Kállai kettős (
A double-dance from Kálló) (1952)

Két kánon (Two canons) (1947 & 1952)

Lakodalmas (A wedding dance) (1950)

Lux aeterna (Eternal light) (1966)

Magány (Solitude) (1946)

Magos kősziklának (On the highest cliffs) (1946)

Magyar etüdök (Hungarian etudes) (1983) 

Nonsense madrigals (1988–93)

Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953)

Reggel (Morning) (1955)


all works by György Ligeti

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