Although I was a member of Lukas Ligeti's improvisation group project "Things Of NowNow", I met his father only once. Still, his music was a main influence on my musical thinking and a constant inspiration in finding my own way.
According to Jorge Luis Borges a Banshee is more a wailing sound (called "keening") than a figure. The Banshee's voice strikes the Celtic people with awe by announcing the death of a family member. In my piece it symbolizes the constant presence of death in our life.
In the final section of this work I included a musical quote from György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre", a passacaglia theme to the words: "Fear not to die, good people all!/ No one knows when his hour will fall./ And when it comes, then let it be.../ Farewell, till then - live merrily!"