Modern Music

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Went to a concert at the University of Illinois' Krannert Center. Attended the performance of Pacifica Quartet, worldwide known string quartet. Very good. They played String Quartet in D Major Op. 18, No. 3 by Beethoven. Very good, very rich, very predictable though. It's what I expected to hear. But their second piece was amazing. I've never fully been exposed to modern music and composers. String Quartet No. 1 "Metamorphoses nocturnes" by Gyorgy Ligeti.

Holy crap. This piece was amazing. Think of Night On a Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky (the Disney Fantasia Piece). But on crack. A lot of crack. But so much damn crack that the dissonances, chromaticsim, aerobic rhythm, and intense pizzicato passages make the motif imitation counterpoint sound beautiful.

I'm gonna listen to more modern music, I heard it breaks all theory but still produces beauty, but now I have proof, and damnit is it good shit.