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'Licht' unleashes a helicopter string quartet

Four women walked onto a stage inside the building. A moderator explained that they were the Pelargos Quartet, and they were about to perform from inside the helicopters everyone was hearing. A buzz, ...
The Washington Post

Shining a ‘Licht’ on a 15-hour opera with hundreds of musicians and a helicopter quartet

AMSTERDAM — How big can opera be? Try 680 musicians and technicians, performing 15 hours of music from an opera cycle originally 29 hours long. Karlheinz Stockhausen, the bad boy of postwar German ...
The New York Times

Three Days, Four Helicopters, One Bone-Shaking Opera Marathon

Is Stockhausen’s “Licht” cycle impossible to stage? A 15-hour abridgment in Amsterdam comes close. By Joshua Barone AMSTERDAM — The “Helicopter String Quartet,” which is exactly what it sounds like, ...
Monocle

Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Mittwoch aus Licht” opera

The premier of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Mittwoch aus Licht” opera, we discuss a film focusing on Spanish Paralympic cyclists and make sandcastles on Rockaway Beach. In our summer music special, we ...
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'Licht' unleashes a helicopter string quartet

A buzz, that is, beyond the four helicopters whose steady drone was being relayed through banks of speakers set up to rehearse a crucial part of “Aus Licht,” a marathon performance of selections from ...