Stick to Tempo, Etc.
In his review of Gyorgy Ligeti’s music (May 20), reviewer Timothy Mangan used the following sentence: “And the poetic ‘Warsaw Autumn’ (No. 6), with the encroaching chill of its harmonies, captures the falling leaves through a collage of descending lines drifting at different speeds.”
What the hell does that mean? I thought music, even avant-garde music, was about notes, chords, tempo, etc. This is why I ordinarily do not read music reviews.
ANDRIUS V. VARNAS
Redondo Beach
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