San Francisco Classical Voice: The Dizzying World of György Ligeti

March 21, 2017

…Woolf’s illustrative music [for Act without Words I], as does her 2013 silent film score Suspenseskillfully augments the performers’ movements. Short motivic bursts illustrate the sudden actions of the man falling off a box and throwing himself against a wall, for example—but  when he cradles the length of rope, contemplating the sweetness of death, Woolf trades terse gestures for long, legato tones…