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Remembering Gyorgy Ligeti Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti died Monday at age 83. Fred Child talks with New Yorker music critic Alex Ross about Ligeti's legacy. And we hear Ligeti's "Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances" from a recent concert performance by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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Remembering Gyorgy Ligeti

Remembering Gyorgy Ligeti

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Remembering Gyorgy Ligeti

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Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti died Monday at age 83. Fred Child talks with New Yorker music critic Alex Ross about Ligeti's legacy. And we hear Ligeti's "Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances" from a recent concert performance by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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