| 单词 | Boulez |
| 例句 | And I listened to my superiors, Boulez and so on, and of course in that world there is no space for narrative, none. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Even before the music — a Pierre Boulez recording — starts, the drama is clear. Review: Torrents of Emotion in a Dance Dish Served Cold 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The massive space of the Albert Hall was perfect for this work, evoking not just the strophic religious responses on which Boulez based the piece but the antiphony of the Italian baroque, too. Prom 13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-25T17:12:13Z Boulez's Derive 2 massively upstages the Beethoven" and @nicktheowl reporting his conversion to the cult of the French master: "Never really immersed myself like that in Boulez before. Proms week two in review 2012-07-24T14:09:46Z I’d met the architect a handful of times before, most recently running into him in March at the opening concert in Frank Gehry’s Boulez Hall in Berlin. How New York's rising trend of 'supertall' towers looks from the 92nd floor 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Last year Deutsche Grammophon released a collection of Boulez's complete works in performances by the composer or musicians he has coached. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And for Boulez, there was no higher compliment to give. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In Bartok’s “Wooden Prince,” written in 1917, the orchestra played with warmth and radiance yet uncanny clarity, a Boulez hallmark. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z If you wonder how Boulez met Stravinsky, thank a Thomson party at the Chelsea Hotel. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Boulez, who will turn 90 in March, has served as the festival's music director seven times over the years. Ojai Music Festival to fete Pierre Boulez, but without Boulez 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Between Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in age, he was little affected by either, though he took an interest in their work. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z Established in 1946 in that small city near Frankfurt was a warm-weather music course that proved peerlessly influential, a hotbed of experimentalism that incubated works by Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage and many others. Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Boulez also revered Mahler, seeing in him a pioneer of harmonic and structural exploration. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The young players of the Lucerne Festival Academy, founded by the composer Pierre Boulez to teach modern music, were performing. The Lucerne Festival’s Ultimate Remake: Itself 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The pianist Taka Kigawa has demonstrated insightful musicianship and impressive stamina during myriad marathon performances at Le Poisson Rouge, including Pierre Boulez’s complete works for solo piano and Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” Taka Kigawa, Ligeti in Mind, Returns to Le Poisson Rouge 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The recording he made with Jessye Norman as Judith and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Pierre Boulez won a Grammy award for best opera recording in 1999. L?szl? Polg?r obituary 2010-09-28T18:13:00Z It will be a homecoming of sorts for Mr. Boulez, who as Leonard Bernstein’s unlikely successor, directed the New York Philharmonic. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z He conducted daring productions like “Philharmonic 360,” in which the orchestra surrounded the audience in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory and played works by Boulez, Mozart, Ives and Stockhausen. Alan Gilbert to Leave New York Philharmonic in 2017 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Boulez later confessed to having second thoughts about the performance. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z But Salonen is also inescapably in the Boulez model of celebrated international composer-conductor, and the news of Boulez's death at 90 was devastating. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z If Mr. Boulez did not accomplish all that he might have, it was less because of his vision than because of his lack of commitment. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Both Bach and Boulez are mathematicians at work. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Two Biennial programs turned over to the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, considered the music and influence of Pierre Boulez and British composer George Benjamin. NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z This year's festival will also present a celebration of Pierre Boulez, the conductor-composer who turned 90 in March. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But the performance was so touchingly exacting — Boulez, Harding told the audience, conducted the L.A. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z His death comes at a time when the Philharmonic is poised to reveal who will follow Alan Gilbert, like Mr. Boulez an inventive, varied programmer, as music director. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z With this work as the mainstay of the program, Mr. Gilbert chose scores by Pierre Boulez and Charles Ives that also involve spatial elements. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z Gone are the Boulez, the Stockhausen, the Schoenberg of earlier years, replaced here by Schumann and Chopin. Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez’s clarity and rigor used Debussy as a model of Modernism. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, who died on Tuesday, will be honored by musical luminaries on Saturday, Jan. 9, at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. Boulez Tribute to Be Held on Saturday 1452-11-15T05:00:00Z “The visceral power of some of the noises I’m attracted to makes them more accessible,” she said, than the more cerebral charms of, say, Pierre Boulez. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z More than that, Boulez's essential compositional concerns are in many ways identical to those of the composers whose conventions he was supposedly rupturing. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z “When Pierre Boulez conducted the premiere,” Mr. Crumb said, “he told me, ‘George, this work is unrecordable.’ Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z But Boulez fever has not captured the imagination of U.S. orchestras this week. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Not only Boulez but many great composer-conductors, Mahler and Leonard Bernstein included, struggled with it. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma” followed in 1976; in 1999, she combined “The New Music” and “Boulez” and republished them as a single volume, “To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since ‘The Rite of Spring.’ ” Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z By programming his works juxtaposed with composers he admired — Bartók, Ravel and Messiaen — Schick and Morris said they hope listeners will find Boulez's music less forbidding. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who was a dominant figure in classical music for over half a century, died on Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. Pierre Boulez, French Composer, Dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In later years, Mr. Boulez was by all accounts a gracious, soft-spoken and self-effacing gentleman, much beloved by the musicians with whom he worked. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Boulez had a long association with the Berlin Philharmonic, first conducting the orchestra in 1961, and with the city. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Then in 1976, when the French conductor Pierre Boulez asked him to direct Wagner's "Ring" cycle of operas at the legendary festival in Bayreuth, Chereau made his unforgettable debut on the international opera scene. France bows to stage director Patrice Chereau, dead at 68 2013-10-08T15:56:08Z It’s quite funny that Boulez, who as a conductor had such a reputation for fidelity to text, may not have been entirely faithful to his own scores. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In retrospect these were breakthrough events, but Mr. Boulez was fighting an uphill struggle. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z These days Mr. Boulez is reserved but approachable, forthcoming, reflective and, to a remarkable degree, without vanity. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z It was as though audiences had suddenly drunk an intoxicating Boulez drug, transforming a complacent, timeless town into an avant-garde stronghold. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The course of American music, in particular Minimalism, was a rebellion against the non-repetitive methods of Boulez. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z By the first piano sonata, it’s completely Boulez and only Boulez. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z A year of celebrations revealed striking commonality in the maximalist way Indian music and jazz opened Riley's compositional realm, as African and Indonesian music did Boulez's. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z If the death of Pierre Boulez earlier this year signaled the end of serialism’s attempted stranglehold on composition, Rautavaara had already found one way around that dogmatic dead end. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z As Dudamel looked on, she scrolled through a digital display of the Philharmonic’s past music directors — Toscanini, Mahler, Pierre Boulez, Bernstein — comparing the length of their tenures. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z This culturally charged training ensemble's new home and concert hall, designed by Frank Gehry and under construction in Berlin, will be named for Boulez. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But Pierre Boulez’s 1991-93 “... explosante-fixe ...,” to be heard at the second and final Contact! concert in June is, like “Frankenstein!!,” hardly unfamiliar to New York audiences. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z The statements Boulez made were kind of refreshingly categorical. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z That includes such obvious years as those when Mahler and Toscanini and Bernstein and Boulez were music director. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z A glance at the book’s index reveals the areas that instead dominate Boulez’s concerns. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The first thing to do when thinking about Boulez's music is to prise it apart from the phenomenon of Boulez the man's power, influence, and personality. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z Describing his mentor as “the most curious, alert, giving and generous man,” Pintscher spoke in a recent phone interview about interpreting Boulez’s works and how best to think about their influence. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Back in the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Boulez was a key figure at the summer school at Darmstadt, Germany, where young modern composers, stifled during the war, pressed for a new international style. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Both were more confident and compelling after intermission, in music at which Mr. Boulez excelled: the final scene from Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Boulez, Though With Composers He Snubbed 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z And Mr. Boulez was among its principal ideologues. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z The projections include archival footage of Boulez speaking and conducting. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “I like virtuosity, although not for the sake of virtuosity but because it’s dangerous,” was Mr. Boulez’s description of “Répons” when we sat down to talk for a few hours after the rehearsal. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Just ask the New York Philharmonic, which is still trying to keep up with all that Boulez proposed when he was music director in the 1970s. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The piece was played in honor of Mr. Boulez’s 90th birthday this year. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The program also has works by Boulez and Ives and the finale of Act I of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z The program also includes works by Ives, Pierre Boulez and Mozart. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z The talking head is Pierre Boulez, the leading modernist of his era. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Might we say that this is a transitional period, and it’s too early still to tell — that Boulez’s compositional legacy is still unclear, even if his significance is obvious? ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z "The idea is to present Boulez as one of the old masters in the creation of music today," Morris said. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The universal significance was made all the more apparent by Boulez performances that Daniel Barenboim led with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra made up of young Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Boulez's music is a fascinatingly complex world of expressive logic. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The latest program includes two works of modernist giants: “Two Controversies and a Conversation” by Elliott Carter and “... explosante-fixe ...” by Pierre Boulez. The Week Ahead: June 3 — 8 2012-06-01T14:30:40Z Then the pianist Marc Ponthus, the institute’s founder and director, spoke for 25 minutes about Pierre Boulez’s First and Third Piano Sonatas before performing the First and two movements from the Third. Music Review: Recital of New Music at Mannes College Festival 2010-06-16T22:13:00Z Her seven seasons as the music director of Ensemble Intercontemporain, a French group founded by Pierre Boulez, earned her a profile as a new music specialist. Malkki at helm of Finnish orchestra cracks glass ceiling 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z In fact, the New York Philharmonic didn’t get around to performing it until 1969, when Pierre Boulez succeeded Bernstein. L.A. Phil lives up to the hype with electrifying guest conductor David Robertson 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Now, when the orchestra seems vague about its post-Gilbert artistic vision, it’s worth remembering the lessons of Mr. Boulez’s tenure. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z When the composer conducted the premiere, in Cologne in 1958, the other two conductors were — small world — Bruno Maderna and Mr. Boulez. The Hot List: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Philharmonic 360,’ at the Armory 2012-06-21T21:31:01Z Mr. Boulez began his conducting career with a series of Parisian concerts he organized in the mid-1950s, titled “Domaine Musical” and devoted mainly to avant-garde music. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z When I mentioned his name to the modernist composer and conductor Pierre Boulez in an interview several years ago, the response was nothing but a snort. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z For all Boulez's talk about living in the moment, he was also a composer who expected his audience to come well prepared for that moment. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Barenboim, who raised the funds for and shaped the design of the oval hall, named it after Boulez. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The fact is: No one can escape Boulez, whether it is as a follower or rebel. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Hearing 6,000 people applaud Boulez, as much as Beethoven, was an unforgettable experience. The best classical music of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:11Z Mr. Boulez created a violent, glittering and emotional music that was, nevertheless, always carefully controlled, anchored by a highly complicated master plan. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z As in passages like this, Boulez’s rigor, as well as his tastes and his compositional voice, can seem now like a relic of the chilly era of high modernism that prevailed a half century ago. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Boulez believed in the absolute value of the work of art. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Stravinsky was there as well and went to dinner with Boulez afterward. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In “Pierrot Lunaire,” Schoenberg pushed the voice to new extremes, in which Mr. Boulez reveled in his great cantatas. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Pierre Boulez's sister Jeanne was responsible for bringing the name of the brilliant French director to her brother's and ultimately to Wolfgang's attention. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z Mr. Boulez kept his private life resolutely private, with no acknowledged romantic relationship of any sort. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z There will surely be much memorial music composed for Boulez, and maybe, until then, the best way to remember him is to look at the way he memorialized others. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was written for Boulez’s 60th birthday, and the “blue silence” of its title has taken on another, poignant layer after that composer’s death in January. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z For all his determination to articulate his thoughts, Boulez has little use for metaphor, the absence of which can make reading him a grind. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Nor was mixing small earlier Boulez pieces with Bartók string quartets in early evening concerts illuminating. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Boulez compared the motion in a small piano piece to the quick and quiet activity of gold fish, and there, on the screens, were gold fish. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This was effective in making Boulez accessible without seriously watering down the complexity of the music or the ideas, but there were occasional lapses. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Boulez believed that it was up to him and his generation of postwar avant-gardists to unleash the musical revolution that Schoenberg's 12-tone system implied. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Harnoncourt lectured in rehearsal; Mr. Boulez said barely a word. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z "His music is remarkably transparent, even impressionistic. In one concert, we alternate pieces by Ravel and Boulez, and you won't know where Ravel stops and Boulez begins and vice versa." Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Boulez conducts his own music and that of Ligeti, and brings the premiere of the latest song cycle by the apparently ageless and inexhaustible Elliott Carter, now in his 102nd year. This week's new live music 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z By withdrawing from circulation several works from his apprentice years, Boulez showed he was willing to follow his own advice. A Teenage Pierre Boulez, Heard for the First Time 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z If you look at “Threni,” for example, by Stravinsky, there is some sort of transition to where Boulez picks it up, and I think those links in music history are fascinating and important. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez’s own music moved from serial rhythms, durations, attacks and dynamics to improvisation, chance, electronics, world music. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Pintscher, on the other hand, happens to be music director of Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Parisian new music group founded by Boulez that champions an uncompromisingly edgy European music we rarely hear in the U.S. A great first date for the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and Matthias Pintscher. Will there be a second? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z It is billed as a tribute to Pierre Boulez, the 90-year-old French composer and conductor known for his experiments in electronic music. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Of the private Boulez, almost nothing was revealed; he was a solitary, isolated by choice and cloaking his charm, much of the time, in arrogance. L’enfant terrible 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Four of the five concerts devoted to Boulez will juxtapose the composer's works with those of Béla Bartók. Ojai Music Festival to fete Pierre Boulez, but without Boulez 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats. Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Next month, a collection of Boulez recordings from the 1950s with his Parisian new music ensemble Domaine Musical will chronicle his early avant-garde approach. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z With the Boulez, the composer’s first published work, Ueno sliced into the narcotic stupor of the Debussy, with razor-sharp flutter-tongued notes and tightly coiled rhythms that crackled with energy. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But I don't expect any "Boulez Is Dead" screeds. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z And, like Boulez, he has become as well known, if not better, for his conducting rather than his own music. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Joan Peyser, a prolific writer about classical music and the author of biographies of Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z The other, Pierre Boulez, is a modern legend, but Mr. Benjamin, who was born in London in 1960, is surely in his league, a creator of pristine and tantalizing sound worlds. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Explores George Benjamin’s Influence 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z A young composer recently said to me, “Boulez is of zero relevance to me at the current moment.” John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z This was a reading of the lithe, refreshingly unpompous variety, along the lines familiar from conductors like Pierre Boulez, Igor Markevitch and Stravinsky himself, rather than the weightier manner of a Leonard Bernstein. Stravinsky, other Moderns at symphony 2011-09-30T20:42:03Z This was not Pierre Boulez with, say, the Cleveland Orchestra or the Chicago Symphony, highlighting inner details with uncanny clarity. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z Throughout "A Day for Boulez," student musicians never appeared to give a second thought to complex works found nearly unplayable by a previous generation. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z On the other is Boulez Hall, named for the French composer and conductor who was close to both Barenboim and Gehry and who died last year at age 90. Frank Gehry's jewel-box new concert hall in the heart of Berlin 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Nine concerts, some overlapping, paid homage to Boulez's titanic influence not only on 20th century music but also on Lucerne itself. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez was acknowledged with a performance of “Messagesquisse” for Solo Cello and Six Cellos, music of wondrous precision and vibrant colors, featuring the cellist Eric Bartlett. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z As Cage moved away from rigor toward strategies of chance, the friendship cooled, ending while Mr. Boulez was writing “Le Marteau.” Music Review: John Cage and Pierre Boulez Juxtaposed at Miller Theater 2012-09-21T22:10:17Z Mr. Boulez always considered himself primarily a composer, although his work tapered off sharply after he began to devote more time to conducting. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It will be just the third time that a Boulez piece has been performed at Carnegie Hall since his death. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez saw the music of the past — under ideal circumstances, that is — as something to be mined purely for future purposes. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z ‘RÉPONS’ A sweeping, complex amalgam of the acoustic and electronic, with the audience both surrounding and surrounded by sound, this Pierre Boulez work from the early 1980s strains the resources of traditional performance spaces. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z All the other Boulez works were short in comparison. Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review 2012-07-28T23:06:25Z Or the Modernist influence of the composer Pierre Boulez? Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Another French composer of an earlier and more conservative generation, Darius Milhaud, paid Mr. Boulez what must be the ultimate compliment. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The name of the auditorium in German, Pierre Boulez Saal, reflects its architectural personality. Frank Gehry's jewel-box new concert hall in the heart of Berlin 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z What about the other two orchestras with Boulez connections? As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “You never get results if you aren’t fighting,” Mr. Boulez now says. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z His methods became the basis of the “total serialism” championed in the 1950s by Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and other European composers. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z But unlike, say, Salzburg or the Proms in London, Lucerne did more than invite visiting ensembles and soloists to play something by Boulez. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Klemperer, Boulez said, seemed “much more interested in the signification of the form of music.” Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z To many artists and intellectuals, World War II had seemed an absolute conclusion to “Old World” traditions, and the early Boulez was prone to sociocultural positions that were hardly less radical than his music. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Bennett was one of only very few composers to study personally with Boulez, in Paris from 1957-8. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z Van Zweden’s six-year tenure will be the shortest of any Philharmonic music director since Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who led the orchestra for six seasons in the 1970s. Jaap van Zweden to Step Down as New York Philharmonic’s Maestro 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z It will be, as never before in this way, played in an environment of new American music that arouse out of much of what Boulez has opposed, especially pop music and Minimalism. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Each concert – except the final one on Friday which is devoted entirely to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth – frames a piece by Boulez with two symphonies. This week's new live music 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z “It’s like doing the third Boulez piano sonata — all these ’60s pieces — where you could really change the order. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z At the academy Bennett did join a new music club, "where we played some difficult music – Boulez and so on – which was very exciting and felt sort of illegal". A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z Most significant was the immersion in the work of Mr. Boulez, whose reputation as a purveyor of unlistenable noise still precedes him. Daniel Barenboim’s Festtage Performance Makes Case for Inheriting Berlin Philharmonic 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez’s Berg is a known quality, and his “Chamber Concerto” is here clear, composed and almost Classicist. Classical Playlist: Villegas, Praetorius, and Boulez's Mozart 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z He is one of the very few to have studied personally with Boulez in the 1950s. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z Pierre Boulez emerged in the late 1940s in Paris as a combative modernist, the brash new leader of the avant-garde. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z After he left New York, Boulez became a regular conducting the L.A. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z For example, when the composer Arnold Schoenberg died in 1951, Mr. Boulez published a withering obituary dismissing most of the older man’s later work. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z After this racy start, the Sinfonietta found its true métier with the arrival of Pierre Boulez. The London Sinfonietta, a Contemporary Music Trailblazer, Turns 50 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Boulez conducts a rehearsal of his Notations with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z This strange, immersive multimedia experience, an hour and a half long, is a celebration of an iconoclastic modern composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez, who is 90 this year. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He did not name those he criticised, but he praised British conductor Sir Simon Rattle and French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez as "real masters". Royal composer Peter Maxwell Davies attacks 'lazy' conductors 2011-01-10T01:00:37Z He has long made the solo piano works of Pierre Boulez a specialty in performances that bring out the exhilarating energy and myriad colorings in these fiercely difficult scores. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez — who has done as much as if not more than any other living composer and conductor to change the way we think about and make music — turns 90 on Thursday. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Yet Boulez mellowed over time, and became a revered figure at leading opera houses and orchestras, working within the system to improve it rather than exploding it. Esa-Pekka Salonen Says Tweak the Orchestra, Don’t Blow it Up 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z All is not as it seems with Boulez's compositions. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z Yet Mr Isserlis is refreshingly ready to slaughter the avant-garde’s sacred cows, dismissing the late Pierre Boulez—the biggest such beast—as having had a deleterious effect on musical life. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, the distinguished composer, conductor, pianist and theorist, turns 90 on Thursday. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z There are points where Boulez creates intricate rhythmic patterns that circle one another, slightly off, just like the ovals in the hall. New Gehry concert hall in Berlin thrills with its sound — and its symbolism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Here is the full Times obituary on Pierre Boulez. Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Boulez returned to them decades later, using them as seeds for orchestral pieces of sometimes overwhelming sonic beauty. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z That was just one of many suggestions that Dudamel, 42, would, before too long, join the ranks of New York music directors, a group that has included eminences like Mahler, Toscanini, Bernstein and Boulez. Welcome to New York. Show Us Your Mahler Ninth. 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Only one, by American Tod Machover, one of Lucerne's two composers in residence this summer, sounded like Boulez. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z For long periods in his middle years, however, Mr Boulez wrote very little; he was too busy conducting. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z If you don't move you stay paralyzed, Boulez observes. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z My friend, an American, had just returned from a residency at Ircam, the state-of-the-art electronic music center Pierre Boulez had then recently created in Paris. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Other recent recitals there have similarly homed in on a single composer, such as Ligeti and Boulez. Review: A Pianist’s Modern Vision of Conflict and Persistence 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 is prefaced by Boulez’s less frequently spotted “Éclat.” Classical Music Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Jarrell, 59, is of the generation of European composers who grew up in a musical landscape dominated by Pierre Boulez and created work that largely — and often interchangeably — echoed his style. After 350 Years, Paris Still Defines Opera 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps for Boulez, popular music was a social discourse rather than a musical one, its essential characteristics being too primitive to discuss as art? John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Schick conducted excerpts from the 45-minute "Dérive 2," which will end the festival Sunday, with breathtaking rhythmic emphasis but less attuned to the kind of expressive elegance that Boulez's own performances emphasize. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Boulez is now 88; his eyesight is known to be failing, and new works such as the Waiting for Godot opera planned for La Scala may never be fulfilled. Boulez: Complete Works – review 2013-06-20T19:00:01Z He persuaded officials to build the Pierre Boulez Saal, a Frank Gehry-designed hall housed in the same building as his conservatory. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Although Boulez was to live over 20 years after the final lecture, “Music Lessons” has the feel of a vast expository Gesamtkunstwerk that ponders and probes musical experience to its very essence. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Boulez didn't begin with ideas; he began with sounds. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But this “dream figure” who would “always give the future the benefit of the doubt,” as Boulez wrote, chafed at his formidable reputation. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The program booklet included extended comments about the pieces from both Mr. Levine and Pierre Boulez. Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z But Mr Boulez also introduced untraditional ideas, such as giving performers the option of playing his work in different orders, which he called “controlled chance”. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He then worked in Paris with Pierre Boulez before returning to London. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z “I like virtuosity not for the sake of virtuosity but because it’s dangerous,” Mr. Boulez said before conducting a performance of his fiery chamber work “Sur Incises” at Zankel Hall in 2008. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez composed that work as a memorial to Stravinsky, who was represented by his quirky song cycle “Pribaoutki” and his “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z The event also explored the narrative possibilities of live and recorded performance, with Mr. Ponthus’s live and screen performances of works by Mr. Boulez and Stockhausen flowing into each other. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s telling that Pierre Boulez, at the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, was its first music director since Mahler not to perform the work. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z When the rappers missed their entrance, Boulez was patient with them and took the time to explain the timing. Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z If you want one piece to convince you that the highest achievements of contemporary music are the opposite of desiccated, solipsistic experimentalism, listen to Boulez's orchestral versions of his Notations. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z There were further daily doses of Boulez, added to a heady diet of contemporary music. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It was at a rug concert in New York where Gehry first met Boulez, beginning a long friendship. New Gehry concert hall in Berlin thrills with its sound — and its symbolism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z For Europe, Boulez's 90th is a monumental milestone. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In June 1969, the stunning news broke that the New York Philharmonic had appointed Pierre Boulez to succeed Leonard Bernstein as its music director. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Let’s not forget: The New York Philharmonic is the orchestra of Bernstein and Boulez, of Mitropoulos and Mengelberg, of Toscanini and Mahler. Jaap van Zweden: Before You See Him, Listen 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z With Abbado's death and Boulez's frailty, the festival is necessarily about to undergo change. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z A shambolic bearded giant who stood 6 foot 3 and favored bolo ties offstage, he may have lacked the dynamism of Bernstein and the avant-gardism of Boulez. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The firebrand composer and conductor Pierre Boulez once wrote that it is essential that a creative artist “hides his first attempts and destroys his traces.” A Teenage Pierre Boulez, Heard for the First Time 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Salonen, who turned sixty last June, is indisputably one of the major personalities in classical music, his stature as both composer and conductor almost comparable to that of Pierre Boulez, the idol of his youth. Classical Music’s Chief Visionary Goes West Again 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In March, when Boulez turned 90, the tributes and birthday celebrations were ubiquitous but also bittersweet, given that he was too frail to participate. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z After failing to get the theater built in Paris, Mr. Boulez, who in his last years directed the Lucerne Festival’s modern-music academy, interested the festival in the idea. Lucerne Festival Opera House Project Killed by Vote 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Boulez, who died on Tuesday at 90 in Germany, had mellowed over the years, long before the Philharmonic tapped him. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But they maintain a consistently cool veneer, lacking the atomized violence of the music of Babbitt’s European counterpart Pierre Boulez, who died on Jan. 5. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez is to turn 90 on March 26. Pierre Boulez Tribute Set in Lucerne 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The time has come to revisit the text with all these Boulez scores, especially with the Ensemble, where we still have members that have played this piece with Pierre. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Boulez inevitably has something observant to say, in prose that’s refreshingly free of academic jargon. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Recycling old pieces for new purposes is a perfectly professional activity practiced by composers from Bach to Boulez. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z The ensemble, a student group groomed to play new music, was founded by Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen’s contemporary and sometime cohort. European concert diary: The Stockhausen effect, even without Stockhausen 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z A student of Pierre Boulez in 1957-58, Bennett's work evolved from the avant-garde to a more tonal style. Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies 2012-12-28T12:24:08Z Over the course of a distinguished career he has been equally at home writing music for the concert hall and performing cabaret at the Algonquin Hotel; as enthusiastic about Cole Porter as Pierre Boulez. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z Also, aesthetically speaking, you could always complain about Boulez's modernist thinking and lots of other things about him. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But the Paris Opera is planning a new space there — a modular one, as once promised to Boulez, with room for an audience of 800 — that is expected to open in 2023. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez wrote the piece for Mr. Carter’s 80th birthday, in 1988, and it is the very definition of a gift that keeps on giving. Music Review: Revisiting a Mellowed Pierre Boulez 2010-12-08T23:39:00Z You could not miss the striking allusions to Stravinsky in Mr. Boulez’s splendid score. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z Yet, in the manner of Pierre Boulez, an acclaimed exponent of this work, Mr. Rattle kept the textures lucid and focused, even when Debussy’s chords were thick with notes. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z Next, we need a first-rate, moderate-size concert hall that can be as transformative as the new Boulez hall. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z And Boulez was like a black-and-white statement machine. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But the last weekend is dominated by Pierre Boulez and Ensemble InterContemporain, whose visit would have been quite unthinkable during Britten's lifetime, when Boulez represented the opposite pole of contemporary music. This week's new live music 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Boulez was on the bill as a conductor, but when the audience heard the Modernist music on the program, "people left. ... It was almost vacant." Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In the 1960s as the unlikely grande dame of Russian pianists, she made contact with the avant-garde likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and championed young Soviet rebels such as Alfred Schnittke. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Bernard Haitink and Pierre Boulez, both revered figures at the Chicago Symphony, kept things going during the search and the last season. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z “Performances are transient, you know,” Boulez said in an interview in 1999. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In judging an artwork, Boulez is adamantly indifferent to its back story, its sociopolitical implications or its creator’s personal narrative. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Because timbre and reverberation are important here, Mr. Ponthus had the idea — sanctioned by Mr. Boulez — of using two pianos. Music Review: Recital of New Music at Mannes College Festival 2010-06-16T22:13:00Z Saariaho, though, is directly descended from the grand avant-garde tradition that began with Boulez and Stockhausen and branched out in the final decades of the twentieth century, notably with French spectralism. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The composer and conductor Pierre Boulez made it his life’s work to render orchestras more modern, and for this Bartok recording, he turned to new technology: Quadrophonic sound, an early precursor of today’s surround sound. 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z On Aug. 23, the festival will hold a special day of tribute concerts dedicated to the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who turned 90 this year. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Harnoncourt’s conducting style practically ignored the beat; Mr. Boulez presented it immaculately. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In a way, the performance of Mahler’s First Symphony that followed was also a tribute to Mr. Boulez, a keenly perceptive Mahler interpreter. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez was in conflict with the French Ministry of Culture and refusing to conduct any orchestras in his native France. The London Sinfonietta, a Contemporary Music Trailblazer, Turns 50 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Stucky died of cancer at 66 in February; Mr. Boulez died at 90 in January. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Boulez, who conducted, deserves comparable accolades. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The music explodes into life with a horn sounding a fanfare to the new century, and weaves an exhilarating journey that harks back to Brahms, yet looks forward almost to Boulez. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Boulez also conducted it several times with members of the L.A. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z He made Beethoven’s bold cadenza sound as up-to-date as Boulez’s. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z In 2009, he shared the conducting of a Mahler cycle with Pierre Boulez. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Although Boulez has had a major presence in the U.S., notably as music director of the New York Philharmonic in the 1970s, Ojai served as his most consistent American musical and spiritual haven. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z For Boulez's most popular orchestral work, "Notations," which concluded the day, the entire Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra came onstage in Boulez T-shirts. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Yet, even while he was studying with Boulez and embracing the European serialist movement, he was already beginning to flourish as a film composer. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z This year, lifetime achievement awards went to the Bee Gees, George Harrison, the classical conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, the blues guitarist Buddy Guy and Flaco Jiménez. Grammy Winners 2015: Beck, Sam Smith, Pharrell and Beyoncé Thrive 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The spring’s program is a hybrid of classic and contemporary music, with an exhibition on David Bowie, through May 31, alongside a series of concerts and workshops on the composer Pierre Boulez. What’s New in Milan, Paris and Manchester, England 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Another concert will pair Boulez's music with pieces by Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messiaen. Ojai Music Festival to fete Pierre Boulez, but without Boulez 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Neither a composer himself nor active in contemporary music, he was as radically fixated on the musical past as Mr. Boulez was on the future. An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Some of Mr. Boulez’s less-predictable repertory choices included works by Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and some orchestral music by the rock musician and satirist Frank Zappa. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z His six-year tenure will be the shortest of any Philharmonic music director since Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who led the orchestra for six seasons in the 1970s. After New York, Jaap van Zweden Will Lead Seoul Philharmonic 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Boulez conducted an earlier version of “Dérive 2” at Carnegie Hall 20 years ago this week, but this is still music that many listeners — even new-music devotees — struggle to get to grips with. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z One notable maestro, Pierre Boulez, remains on that list, and at 85 he is not likely to commit to a Met production, which would involve several weeks of residency. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z But Mr. Boulez was at least enticed to conduct the Met Orchestra, and that long-awaited concert took place on Sunday afternoon at . Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z Mr. Boulez, who died on Jan. 5, was born in 1925, the son of an industrialist. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Mark Jones Daniel Barenboim's conducting of some of his favourite Pierre Boulez pieces was a highlight of the 2012 Proms, and those interpretations are collected here. TV highlights 01/03/2013 2013-03-01T07:00:04Z But there were also the things that Boulez didn't achieve. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z As a child he was prodigiously talented and was not only interested in the likes of Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Copland, but he also worked with them. Michael Tilson Thomas: 'The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops' 2012-05-25T12:04:46Z The celebrations at Aldeburgh, one of Britain’s best summer music festivals, will be mainly about Mr Boulez as a composer. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He has kept alive Boulez’s vision of a “musical life that is part of genuine culture.” The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z At the BBC, I was getting a lot of quite decent solo work with composers such as Boulez and Ligeti, who knew me by name. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z This performance features seven dancers, two musicians and six works, including the premiere of Mr. Magloire’s “Friction,” a duet by Mr. Baecher, and a tribute to the new nonagenarian Pierre Boulez. Dance Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z She first made a name for herself in contemporary repertory, and moved to Paris to serve from 2006 until 2013 as the director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the group founded by Pierre Boulez. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z He's talkative and outgoing, a hip, freewheeling musician who's perfectly at home whether he's talking Boulez or playing DJ in a San Francisco rock club. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z There was a metaphor in this for the whole of Mr. Boulez’s career-long embrace of new music. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z There's no question that the big draw on the programme was not Boulez, but the West-Eastern Divan and Barenboim performing Beethoven. Beethoven + Boulez = Revelation 2012-07-26T16:31:00Z When Pierre Boulez conducted Debussy’s “Jeux,” he did so as though Boulez had written it. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The conductor David Robertson, a disciple of Pierre Boulez and an unabashed Williams fan, told me that some current London Symphony players first became interested in their instruments after encountering “Star Wars.” Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, a work close to Boulez’s heart with an eerie sound world connected to Boulez’s, followed immediately on the heels of “Eclat.” Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Near the end of the production, Boulez says that art should not be thought of as operating on a trajectory but is more like a tree. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Its new, small, oval-shaped Pierre Boulez hall designed by Gehry and equipped with acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota is a magical concert space that Barenboim has programmed imaginatively with almost daily concerts. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Gehry said he designed it as a gift to Boulez and conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is a cofounder of the academy along with the late writer Edward Said. Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez seemed delighted to address this interesting, and essentially accurate, observation. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, "Schoenberg Is Dead," that instantly became infamous. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Not since the heady period of Bernstein and Boulez, in the sixties and seventies, has the ensemble shown such a sense of intellectual direction. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Again, Mr. Boulez drew a combination of rich sound and piercing clarity from the orchestra. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z Boulez's influence has been pervasive in the U.S. as well. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Elliott Carter, whose 102nd birthday is on Saturday and to whom Mr. Boulez dedicated “Dérive II,” the only work on the second half of the program, was also present. Music Review: Revisiting a Mellowed Pierre Boulez 2010-12-08T23:39:00Z Pierre Boulez’s “Notations,” as delivered by Melody Fader on piano, reflected their sense of discovery. Dance Review: New Chamber Ballet Unveils Three New Works 2014-04-07T22:39:48Z As for Philharmonic concerts as a whole, this one was rivaled by others, including, soon after, a performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony conducted by Pierre Boulez in 1972. Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z Mr. Boulez made the first complete recording of Alban Berg’s opera “Lulu” and recorded the complete music of the Austrian composer Anton Webern twice over the course of three decades. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Critiques of the “Ox” abounded — that it betrayed its author’s personal grudges, that it unfairly treated modernists like Milton Babbitt and Pierre Boulez. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Now Mr. Boulez had young musicians from the Lucerne Festival Academy on hand. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z I personally interpret my own works exactly in the same way as a Bruckner symphony, or a Schubert symphony, or a piece by Boulez. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Many composers are unable or unwilling to talk or write about their music, but Boulez was always astonishingly prolific with words. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He raised the festival’s profile significantly when he established the Lucerne Festival Academy, with Pierre Boulez as its director, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, directed by Claudio Abbado. Langrée Signs On for More Mostly Mozart 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Bennett could not agree, and while he admired Boulez's musical and personal asceticism, he couldn't completely go along with either. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z Take a listen to “Notations,” a series of orchestral movements Mr. Boulez wrote in the 1970s, based on piano miniatures he’d done in the 1940s. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Although a great Bartók conductor, Boulez always considered the Hungarian the least important to him of the great 20th century composers. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z To be honest, Boulez's polemics have often been part of that perceptual problem. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z Phil, but he was already by then a fixture at the Ojai Festival, which will pay considerable tribute in June with several Boulez chamber pieces programmed. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez once declared that after World War II all music should be “ugly.” Music Review: A Dexterous Sextet Balances Trills and Tempos 2011-02-01T21:38:09Z “Like a lion that had been flayed alive,” was Messiaen’s description of the young Mr. Boulez. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z In past years, he has played everything from Messiaen’s “Catalogue d’Oiseaux” to the complete solo works of Pierre Boulez and the entirety of Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But his conducting career took off when Mr. Boulez invited him to lead the newly founded Ensemble Intercontemporain, a hothouse of avant-garde creativity. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He travelled to the Darmstadt summer courses, the fountainhead of the musical far reaches in the 1950s, and also spent those extraordinary years with Boulez in Paris. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z Mr. Boulez, whose 90th birthday is being celebrated this year, was among the postwar composers to shatter the traditional structure of music and replace it with abstract, unpredictable forms. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Then back in L.A. in January, he woke up one morning to a text from the Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki that Pierre Boulez had died. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Surely there can be no finer exponents of the work of Pierre Boulez than the group he founded, the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, who conducted the premiere, said Mr. Cerha had worked “with great care, competence and mastery.” Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Last year, the award was given to Pierre Boulez. ArtsBeat: Composer Is Awarded $550,000 Prize by Spanish Foundation 2014-02-11T19:25:40Z Pintscher, 52, first met Boulez in the late 1990s, and they later became close friends. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z She opened the door, and the first thing she did was shake her finger accusingly at Boulez. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I was lucky enough to grow up in Paris, hearing all the big premieres by Pierre Boulez with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The first couples Boulez’s “Eclat” with Mahler’s seldom-performed Symphony No. 7, which Rattle says was Boulez’s favorite of the Mahler symphonies. Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez conveyed the music’s primordial Wagnerian aura. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z In this context, the Piano Sonata No. 1, from 1946, which Mr. Aimard played next, one heard the young Mr. Boulez taking a leap into audacious originality. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It could be Sartre speaking, but it’s Boulez trying to cut a clean path through the overgrown thicket of too much tradition, thoughtless habit and unquestioning routine. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Here the young Mr. Boulez was taking on Beethoven, writing a tradition-bashing answer to the challenge of the mighty “Hammerklavier” Sonata. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Yet, by Mr. Heras-Casado’s age, Mr. Boulez and Mr. Harnoncourt were both staking claims, claims that might seem outlandish in their certainty and force if they were made now. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And then there’s Sony’s 67-CD set of all the recordings of Boulez’s conducting, “The Complete Columbia Album Collection” from released on Columbia in the 1960s and 1970s. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The young Mr. Boulez referred to his music as “organized delirium,” and the phrase, rather than an oxymoron, was telling and apt. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Classic FM and Pierre Boulez are both ends of the spectrum and whether the old radical likes it or not, he is still in the classical tradition. Notes and queries: When red lights might not mean stop; What makes classical music classical music? Why Ludo and Monopoly players are good sports 2010-08-31T23:05:00Z Even as some of their works are almost a century old, modernists like Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, and Ruth Crawford Seeger still pose a challenge. How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet for Bennett, this wasn't a rejection of everything that Boulez's revolution represented. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z But the second sonata — with which Mr. Boulez wanted to destroy the traditional sonata form — represents the composer at his most formidable. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z Photograph: Andrew Testa The American composer Elliott Carter, who has died aged 103, was, apart from Pierre Boulez, the last survivor of the heroic age of postwar musical modernism, and perhaps its greatest exponent. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z The fascinating program was inspired by correspondence between Cage and Mr. Boulez from 1949 to 1954, when the two, newly met, were intrigued by each other’s compositional breakthroughs. Music Review: John Cage and Pierre Boulez Juxtaposed at Miller Theater 2012-09-21T22:10:17Z And as Boulez during the 1970s became a cultural icon in both Europe and America, principally through his conducting, I became increasingly troubled by his tunnel vision, particularly his dismissive attitude toward American music. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z To celebrate Boulez, Ojai will present "A Pierre Dream: A Portrait of Pierre Boulez," which festival organizers have described as "a kaleidoscope of recorded and live music, words, and imagery" related to the composer. Ojai Music Festival to fete Pierre Boulez, but without Boulez 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z With the recent death of Pierre Boulez, Salonen has emerged as perhaps the most potent creative force in contemporary classical music. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z I lost track of the number of times Mr. Boulez and Deborah Polaski, the compelling soprano soloist in the Schoenberg, were brought back to the stage during the long final ovation. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z In other ways — more important ways — that sense of the irreconcilable lies at the heart of Boulez Hall both architecturally and culturally. Frank Gehry's jewel-box new concert hall in the heart of Berlin 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z While his language may have softened over the years, Boulez never really changed this fundamental perspective, which makes reading “Music Lessons” a daunting task. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The air of perfection that surrounded Boulez, who died in 2016 at 90, was daunting. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Barenboim and Boulez have an association dating back nearly half a century, and Barenboim has spoken at length about the appeal of Boulez's works, believeing that they allow "the maximum possibilities with the material involved". TV highlights 01/03/2013 2013-03-01T07:00:04Z Perhaps the most unexpected item on the program in the next few weeks is Frank Zappa's "Dupree's Paradise," recorded in its orchestral version by Pierre Boulez in the early 1980s. Ludovic Morlot issues wide-open invitation to concertgoers 2011-08-31T20:53:04Z But Rattle is a conductor nothing like the more emotionally spartan Boulez, and this Mahler Seventh was effusive in the extreme. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Still, though his days as a polemicist were past, Mr. Boulez conveyed a message through his programming and leadership: Complex modern music had come to stay; institutions and audiences were going to have to adjust. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z No, thank you, Thomas replied — he was specializing in Bach, Schoenberg, Boulez and Stockhausen. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mournfulness was provided not by Mr. Boulez but others. Review: ‘Au Revoir, Pierre,’ a Celebration of Boulez 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z His six-season tenure will be the Philharmonic’s shortest since Pierre Boulez’s in the 1970s. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Boulez, for instance, sometimes conducted Zimmermann’s work and spoke admiringly of it. A Composer of Dark Explosions Turns 100 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z As a young man Mr Boulez discovered serialism, then a revolutionary new way of producing music, and for a while he embraced it with categorical fervour. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But they seemed inspired by the chance finally to work with Mr. Boulez. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z The 2015 edition of the Ojai Music Festival will honor the 90th birthday of composer and conductor Pierre Boulez with five concerts dedicated to his music and influences. Ojai Music Festival to fete Pierre Boulez, but without Boulez 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Boulez spoke often about finding ways to shake up concert protocols and try alternative approaches. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It will be part of a three-day homage to Mr Boulez at the Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk, the latest of many events, concerts and broadcasts to be held in his honour this year. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Glossing through the contentious Beethoven Seven score — which included cut upper-trumpet parts and doublings, most conspicuously in the cello — Boulez concluded, as though obvious, “Mahler was having trouble with his orchestra.” 10 Treasures, Unearthed From the New York Philharmonic’s Archives 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Each projected an uncompromising attitude, even if Mr. Boulez compromised as a music director in London and New York, and Mr. Harnoncourt in his work with traditional symphony orchestras. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Throughout his long, productive life, Pierre Boulez nurtured his inner critic and editor, and he incessantly revised and expanded early ideas. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It is now home to the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, directed by Pierre Boulez. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z In his general championship of contemporary music, Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, has stepped up to the challenge once posed by one of his predecessors, the composer-conductor Pierre Boulez. Cultural Clicks: Caitlyn Jenner's Predecessors, Bryan Ferry's New Video 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The program opens with a work by Pierre Boulez and ends with Per Norgard’s Eighth Symphony in its United States premiere. Classical Music Listings for June 10-16 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z They are time capsules, preserving memorable performances led by Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and more. 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Easy for the wizardly Mr. Boulez to say, but Mr. Mena largely achieved that clarity. Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z But Xenakis, in an article titled “The Crisis of Serial Music,” took issue with the likes of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, essentially accusing them of leading music into an impasse. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z He took harmony classes taught by Olivier Messiaen, at which Pierre Boulez was a fellow student. Pierre Henry, Composer Who Found the Music in Sounds, Dies at 89 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z His relations with fellow composers Lou Harrison, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and others are traced in sometimes thornier detail. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z The Los Angeles Boulez neglect in general is particularly troublesome. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez distinguished between the time we count and the time we inhabit. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He would have joined a lineage of composer-conductors that includes Boulez, Bernstein, and Mahler. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z He soon learned the new language of computer music as one of the first composers to work at Ircam, Pierre Boulez’s musical research institute in Paris. Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Is Dead at 73 2012-12-07T02:22:20Z The conductor’s friendship with Boulez, a firebrand of 20th-century modernism who died in 2016, is also enshrined in the new Frank Gehry-designed chamber music hall that opened here earlier this year. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z For those wishing to see the master in action, EuroArts has collected 10 Boulez DVDs under the title "Emotion and Analysis" that include live Boulez performances, documentaries and Boulez's illuminating analyses of his own music. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Five box sets of CDs and DVDs have come out, or are about to, that contain the vast majority of Boulez's recordings as composer and conductor. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez masterminds moments that somehow add up convincingly into structures. Music Review: Axiom Plays Boulez and Stockhausen at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-21T21:49:17Z Last summer, Daniel Barenboim played both of Liszt's piano concertos in a single concert at the Festival Hall, with Pierre Boulez conducting. LPO/Alsop/Hough ? review 2012-02-09T18:00:01Z If Boulez insisted on the need to forget the past, Mr. Widmann emphasizes the inevitability of remembering. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z He now adds the newly appointed position of principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, with which he oversaw an impressive day of Boulez performances at last summer's festival. A great first date for the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and Matthias Pintscher. Will there be a second? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z He has followed, as conductor and composer, in Pierre Boulez’s footsteps. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z But you can also hear the impact of van Raat’s jazz-aficionado status when he’s dealing with the French modernist Pierre Boulez. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z FEW figures were cooler or calmer than Pierre Boulez on the podium. L’enfant terrible 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Barenboim and Pierre Boulez are scheduled to conduct premieres of other new works by him later this season. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z In his 20s, in the unsteady wake of World War II, Boulez lobbed critical grenades even at his heroes. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, he added, is scheduled to work with young players on one of his pieces from Ircam in Paris. New Hall in Miami Beach Begins to Fill Its Role for Musicians and Public 2011-01-26T17:26:13Z I was sitting next to Pierre Boulez, in my 50s, being really worried about what he might say and just sweating. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Boulez is perfect,” a composer friend said to me with a resigned shrug sometime in the late 1970s. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z While ICE played brilliantly, Schick's conducting, which lacks the nuance of his solo playing, allowed no room for essential messiness, the expressivity of the intricate little details that give Boulez's music its life. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Wednesday night, the festival paid tribute to Boulez with "A Pierre Dream," a multimedia tribute to Boulez with a remarkable stage design by Frank Gehry. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In his French-accented English, Mr. Boulez explained the music without jargon, taking all questions graciously. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The society's back catalogue of concerts reads like a history of 19th and 20th-century music – from Berlioz and Boulez and beyond. In praise of … the Royal Philharmonic Society 2013-01-24T21:37:00Z The architect invited Boulez to a Yale course he taught on designing concert halls. Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z There will also be a celebration of the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez, with his works paired with the six string quartets of Bartok, whose Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, fittingly, concludes the festival. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez championed modern music at the Philharmonic and showed that he was an unmatched conductor of knotty contemporary scores. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez is being marked around the world this year with concerts, festivals, and the release of boxed sets of his recordings. Pierre Boulez Tribute Set in Lucerne 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert may be remembered as the biggest change agent to lead the Philharmonic since Pierre Boulez in the 1970s. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Adams has long bristled against the hegemony of the European Modernism of which Boulez became a symbol. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Even the warning that a concert is about to begin isn’t the usual docile bells, but a spreading roar of electronics from “Répons” by Pierre Boulez, a tutelary spirit here for decades. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Boulez's Structures 1A, composed at roughly the same time on the other side of the Atlantic, Music of Changes was also, in fact, rigorously determined by the questions Cage was asking of the I Ching. A guide to John Cage's music 2012-08-13T12:13:37Z Featuring a group of singers as well as orchestra, the piece is a cosmic jumble of texts and musical quotations, with references to Beethoven, Berg, Boulez and more; it’s music that captures chaos. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, one of the most commanding musicians of the past century, must have been asked countless times, before his death in 2016, what he thought his legacy might be. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z She studied under the classical composer Joe Cutler, who introduced her to "Messiaen and Michael Tippett, Boulez – all these composers that have done incredible things", but also encouraged her to write and perform songs. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z As a student he visited Darmstadt and won a scholarship to study with Boulez in Paris. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z Mr. Boulez recalled in 1996: “When you are in a situation after the Second World War, you become very committed to serving the new cause.” Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “Illuminations,” also prompted by Rimbaud, fused what might have been the fractious gestures of a Pierre Boulez piano sonata with the cyclonic whorls of an avant-garde jazz pianist like Cecil Taylor. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z DG, meanwhile, has just brought out all of Boulez's glorious performances from Chicago, Cleveland, Berlin and elsewhere of 20th century scores. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A reader who cannot immediately identify with a handful of canonical names — Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Bartok and, of course, Boulez — may feel left out of the conversation. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z On the festival's second Sunday, "A Day for Pierre Boulez," it celebrated, as foreign festivals this summer are doing, the French composer's 90th birthday. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Wednesday night, ICE and red fish blue fish, this year's resident ensembles in Ojai, offered dazzlingly virtuosic performances of excerpts of Boulez's work early and late. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez, citing their “flamboyant polyphony, extremely dense, sometimes overloaded,” cautions the interpreter not to lead the large orchestra into “a perpetually muddy effect.” Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z The Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, two ensembles to which Boulez has had close ties, had their Boulez moment months ago. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Ever the realist, Boulez, according to Wright, amused himself with the calculation that this single performance constituted a bigger audience for Derive than the total up to that point. Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review 2012-07-28T23:06:25Z “From Schoenberg’s pen,” the young Boulez wrote, “flows a stream of infuriating clichés and formidable stereotypes redolent of the most wearily ostentatious Romanticism.” John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In this, as in so much, Boulez was ahead of his time. 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But five years after Reiner's sonata, the 25-year-old Pierre Boulez wrote a phenomenally inventive Second Piano Sonata that conveys a level of violence suitable for expressing the newness of the Holocaust's unspeakable horror. 'Recovered Voices' initiative studies grim history of Nazi censorship 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z A prominent musician, rumored to have been Pierre Boulez, apparently shouted “merde,” while one critic called it “decadent trash.” How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The new Pierre Boulez Concert Hall in Berlin will feature about 700 seats and is expected to open this year at the Barenboim-Said Academy, a center for music and humanities. Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, will present concerts of works by Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin and their associates and disciples. New York Philharmonic Offers Details on 2014 Biennial 2013-05-29T19:00:01Z This is where Boulez invented a style of conducting, often compared to that of a French gendarme directing traffic. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez was about to conduct Janacek, the sort of composer he disdained years ago. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Later, the same evening players from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra provided a supplement to Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven and Boulez series, with chamber music by both composers. Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review 2012-07-27T11:11:44Z Now there is another tribute planned: the Lucerne Festival Academy, which Mr. Boulez helped found, announced Thursday that it would celebrate him with a concert marathon Aug. 23 during this summer’s festival. Pierre Boulez Tribute Set in Lucerne 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Tributes this year to Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday have been plentiful in Europe and will continue to be at summer festivals. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Even when he conducts something like “The Rite of Spring,” Mr. Boulez is not one to pummel listeners. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z Hodges and Morison performed an arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for two pianos and Pierre Boulez’s restless “Structures II” for their teachers and fellow students at Winchester, to bemused reactions. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z During celebrations of Mr. Boulez’s 90th birthday last year, audiences had ample opportunities to hear his music. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was the logical next step for French music after the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, followed by the post-serialism of Boulez. Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z So explicit was the fit, that Pierre Boulez, who had no patience with throwback Romanticism, said that Rachmaninoff’s piano music can be interesting. Commentary: The curious case of Rachmaninoff and his connection to Philip Glass 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z His music was mostly tonal, though very much modern, and Rorem didn’t hesitate to aim his printed words at other prominent contemporaries who espoused the dissonant avant-garde, like Pierre Boulez. Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z It takes special performers to make his music as palatable as Boulez, Uchida and Oliver Knussen have shown it can be. The world lost 6 revolutionary composers in one year. How L.A., and only L.A, is paying tribute 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Taylor, who has worked as comfortably with Leopold Stokowski and Pierre Boulez as with Duke Ellington and Thad Jones, has a long and fruitful relationship with PostClassical. Review | PostClassical Ensemble gives Mahler’s 4th symphony ‘A Wicked New Look’ 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The university’s computer music program, along with the groundbreaking one at Stanford University, was Boulez’s model for IRCAM. Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Like the Boulez Saal, the hall will be active nearly every night, bringing much new life to the area, particularly in the summer. Commentary: How Frank Gehry's new Colburn concert hall could transform arts in L.A. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “If Russia had Stalin and Germany had Hitler, France still has Pierre Boulez,” Rorem once wrote. Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Two tiny nods were made to Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, who did much to put the festival on the map. Review: Ojai Music Festival begins a new era with exciting emerging talent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin occupies a historic warehouse that was once used to store sets for the Berlin State Opera. From bank to Burger King to handsome Frank Gehry-designed concert hall 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, 90, died in Baden-Baden, Germany. Today in History 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Both architect and acoustician are hooked on the concept of modular venues in the round, with that wisp of a suspended balcony they pioneered five years ago with the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Commentary: How Frank Gehry's new Colburn concert hall could transform arts in L.A. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z From the start, Messiaen predicted Pierre Boulez would become the greatest French composer of his generation. Most heavenly holiday music: Messiaen and Christmas in 20 virtuosic piano visions 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z There is also something about Pierre Boulez being a shopkeeper. It's Beethoven's 250th birthday. Our critic's guide to the best new recordings 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Pierre Boulez, by the way, made an admirably lucid recording of the Eighth too. Miss the ecstasy and extravagance of Mahler's Eighth? You're not alone 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Cage told Boulez that the quartet contained no counterpoint and no harmony. Why John Cage's String Quartet is the perfect music for our messy world 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z With imaginative concerts nearly every night in Berlin, the Boulez Saal has brought new vitality to the cultural life of a cultural capital already so vital that it didn’t even know it needed the venue. Commentary: How Frank Gehry's new Colburn concert hall could transform arts in L.A. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The larger one will be in the round, almost like a larger version of Gehry’s recent Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, providing a sense of immediacy. Commentary: Frank Gehry unveils designs for two L.A. concert halls. But will they get built? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, “Schoenberg Is Dead,” that instantly became infamous. Your weekend culture watch list, from a Bollywood dance party to free 'Carousel' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z She was magnificent in large choral works, such as Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder under Pierre Boulez in the Proms at the Albert Hall. 'A majestic figure in every sense' – stars remember Jessye Norman 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He hobnobbed with artists; visited Alice B. Toklas; struck up a close friendship with Pierre Boulez. Why John Cage's String Quartet is the perfect music for our messy world 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It is neither in Toyota’s groundbreaking vineyard style nor the spectacular new development that he and Frank Gehry produced with Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, an oval with suspended balcony. Commentary: La Jolla's SummerFest has a new artistic director to go with its new concert hall 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z I can still see the formidable Boulez driving down Ojai Avenue in a rented Toyota and happily waving hello. How Thomas Morris brought the Ojai Music Festival to the big time 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Thus, a tribute to Boulez ended the season of what is now called Monday Evening Concerts this week, a month after its 80th birthday, in the Colburn School’s Zipper Concert Hall. Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Frank Gehry will celebrate his 90th birthday Feb. 28 with a concert at Pierre Boulez Saal concert hall in Berlin, which his firm designed. Essential Arts: Frank Gehry is turning 90 — but he's still got work to do 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Still, I cherish most the various recordings made by Boulez, who dedicated himself to banishing all sentimental mists from Debussy’s music, thereby exposing its modernity. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The high priest of the epoch was the late Pierre Boulez, who declared that any composer who had not absorbed Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method was “useless.” The Sounds of Music in the Twenty-first Century 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z After all, Pierre Boulez served several times as music director. How Thomas Morris brought the Ojai Music Festival to the big time 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But the orchestration for pairs of harps and flutes, along with a celesta, gives Boulez away. Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Retractable walls, as in the Boulez Saal, will allow the building to be broken up quickly into concert, rehearsal and teaching areas. L.A. Phil's new YOLA Center: Why a youth concert hall in Inglewood has global implications 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It is best to start where Pierre Boulez said modern music was born: with the ethereal first notes of the orchestral tone poem “Prelude to ‘The Afternoon of a Faun.’ The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He is the music director of Paris’ Ensemble InterContemporain, which puts him directly in the line that started with founder Pierre Boulez. Review: In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Matthias Pintscher lends some snap to Stravinsky 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z His first time at the festival was in 1996, a Boulez year, and he was immediately hooked. How Thomas Morris brought the Ojai Music Festival to the big time 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But it was, perhaps, the advocacy of French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez that most represented the series’ gift of prophesy in the 1950s. Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He is a defiant apologist for the drily theoretical work that Boulez and his acolytes produced in the 1960s. George Benjamin’s defence of opera 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “He is phenomenal. There is no musician I’ve ever met, including Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, who comes anywhere near having the abilities that Cecil Taylor has. He is a product of his own genius.’ Cecil Taylor, pianist who was ‘the eternal outer curve of the avant-garde,’ dies at 89 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z One night it was Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall. His Camera Has Ears 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Boulez was in poor health, and had only a few months to live. Germany’s New Concert Temples 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z At 44 minutes, the reading required nearly seven minutes more than Boulez’s recording. Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z She first captured it in Paris, in the early eighties, when she was based at ircam, Pierre Boulez’s center for music and technology. The Oceanic Music of Kaija Saariaho 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z First came a bow to Pierre Boulez, who died in January, in the form of his skittering “Messagesquisse,” for seven cellos. Alan Gilbert’s Triumphant Biennial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the Proms will pay tribute to French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, who died in January aged 90. BBC Proms 2016: Strictly, Bowie and music in a car park - BBC News 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z After two nights in Hamburg, I travelled to Berlin to see the latest addition to a crowded musical landscape: Pierre Boulez Saal, a chamber hall just south of the Staatsoper. Germany’s New Concert Temples 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z In 1996, Boulez returned Stravinsky’s favor in “sur incises,” his most extensive late work, which is for three pianos, three harps and a tangle of percussion instruments handled by three players. Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The Dutch conductor will become the 26th music director of the New York Philharmonic, following in the footsteps of greats such as Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Kurt Masur. Jaap van Zweden named next director of the New York Philharmonic 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Gilbert’s record with new music is unambiguously formidable, rivalling that of Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez, the two great visionaries in Philharmonic history. Alan Gilbert’s Triumphant Biennial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Boulez fought harder than anyone for the cause of contemporary music, and even those who received his barbs benefitted in one way or another from his energy. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The modernist master for whom Boulez Saal is named was a relentless critic of classical music’s fixation on the past. Germany’s New Concert Temples 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Boulez collaborated with architect Frank Gehry on projects that included a new concert hall in Germany that will be named after Boulez when it opens this year. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Born in Montbrison, France, Boulez initially studied mathematics as a youth before switching to music. French conductor, composer Pierre Boulez dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z As a conductor Boulez worked with some of the world's leading orchestras and was especially celebrated for his interpretations of 20th century composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. French composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Last year, on a visit to the Philharmonie, I spent several hours exploring an exhibition dedicated to Boulez. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Boulez was a composer, conductor, pianist and writer, who helped steer contemporary music in radical new directions in the years following the second world war, including incorporating electronic music into the classical sphere. Pierre Boulez, classical music's maverick, dies aged 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Gehry said Wednesday that Boulez had a reputation as an imposing and exacting maestro, but he also could be a generous teacher. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Pierre Boulez made French music shine throughout the world. French conductor, composer Pierre Boulez dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z "Pierre Boulez shone the light of French music in the whole world. As a composer and a conductor, he always wanted to reflect on his era," French President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement. French composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z At various times, Boulez planned to write an opera. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z And she did have quite a relationship with the Philharmonic – especially around the time when Pierre Boulez was the director. Eric Owens: paying homage to the great African American classical singers 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z No matter how popular he became, Boulez managed to closely and even fanatically guard his private life, amid much speculation about affairs and relationships. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Early career landmarks included winning first prize in the 1973 Messiaen Competition at the age of 16 and being appointed, three years later, by Pierre Boulez to become the Ensemble intercontemporain's first solo pianist. Pianist Lang Lang cancels debut Edinburgh International Festival concert - BBC News 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z She employed the tone of relief that one hears at Lincoln Center when Boulez gives way to Brahms. Drum Solos Among the Sycamores 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Boulez took away the struggle—the muddiness and the messiness. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The 90th birthday this year of French composer Pierre Boulez is celebrated in a series of concerts, while percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie marks her 50th birthday with a Proms Chamber Music concert. BBC Proms to celebrate Ibiza, Sherlock and outer space - BBC News 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z "I am very simple and easygoing," Boulez said to the Guardian in 1989. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Finally, in the first years of this century, the idea of a large new hall gathered support, not least because Laurent Bayle, a strong-willed Boulez disciple, had assumed control of the Cité de la Musique. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Stravinsky and Copland have presided over performances of their own works, and Pierre Boulez has served as music director on seven occasions. Drum Solos Among the Sycamores 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Above all, I was transfixed by the sight of Boulez’s minuscule, spidery handwriting, which almost requires a magnifying glass to decipher. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez has long been one of his champions, as has, more recently, the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. ArtsBeat: Elliott Carter to Join Legion of Honor 2012-09-10T17:32:12Z But young Boulez did not entirely leave math behind. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Bowie may draw the biggest crowds, but Boulez does not lack for admirers. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z I am proud to say that I am a lifelong Wiz/Les Boulez fan and bought this jersey to protest the current WW administration. The man with the Baltche jersey 2012-02-08T16:49:25Z Simon Rattle, one of many forward-thinking conductors who received Boulez’s encouragement, described the status quo: “What one heard was only a struggle.” Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z While there, Mr. Kazdin produced some of George Szell’s last recordings with the Cleveland Orchestra and virtually all the recordings by the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. Andrew Kazdin, Classical Record Producer, Dies at 77 2011-12-01T01:39:08Z Boulez adopted Arnold Schoenberg's atonal, 12-tone serial system in composing, but took it much further, devising with other composers systems to also regulate rhythms, accents, the duration of notes and nearly every other musical element. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Only here did I feel strongly the spirit of Boulez, who marked his ninetieth birthday on March 26th. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Boulez built his entire Ircam research lab in Paris to harness music to technological innovation. 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas' 2010-07-10T23:02:00Z Through his music, his recordings, and his lingering aura, Boulez will reverberate into the future. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Boulez also spoke of adapting Genet’s play “The Screens,” which is set during the Algerian war, and in recent years he was said to be working on an opera of “Waiting for Godot.” Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z In 1959, Boulez moved to Baden-Baden, lured by the progressive Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra that played his music and offered him increasing chances to conduct. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Back in the sixties, Boulez passionately opposed the conventional-minded agenda of the Ministry of Culture; he wanted a more sweeping scheme of reëducation, a shift away from tradition and toward new music. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Tacked on is Roussel’s boisterous Third Symphony—an instance of Boulez engaged in uncompromising fun. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Boulez, who died on January 5th, at the age of ninety, never reached the front lines, but he exemplified the ethos of his generation. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But the elegantly attired Boulez, who could be charming and witty in person, still could deliver barbs. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z As a conductor, Boulez found far wider acceptance. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z For the most part, though, the populism of the Philharmonie diverges from Boulez’s philosophy. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Boulez said in 2010 that he would probably not conduct again in Los Angeles because of the distance from his Paris home. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It would be antithetical to Boulez’s spirit, then, to offer nothing but banal praise at his passing. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Boulez later said the group's infamous antics — including loud protests of modern music it deemed too conservative — have been overblown. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Gehry invited Boulez to a Yale course he taught on designing concert halls. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Sing-alongs and symphonies, Bowie and Boulez: it doesn’t quite add up to an integrated vision. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z If Boulez knew of that description, it was probably a badge of honor. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z And Boulez frustrated not only those whom he deemed insufficiently radical but those whose experiments went too far. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z "Certainly I was a bully," Boulez told the Telegraph newspaper of London in 2008. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z If Boulez let these sorts of comments get to him, he did not let on. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But Boulez, who was visiting California, came to a rehearsal and demonstrated a human sensibility behind the work. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Even Stravinsky found the work "admirable," writing in a note to famed composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, "Without feeling close to Boulez's music, I frankly find it preferable to many things of his generation." Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Curiously, for a man so steeped in instrumental abstraction, Boulez was at his best when dealing with voices. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Bernstein was dramatic and demonstrative; Boulez was cool and analytical. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was in Lyon that Boulez first heard a live orchestra concert and saw his first opera, according to his biographer, Joan Peyser. Pierre Boulez, a radical titan of contemporary music, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Some detractors felt Boulez was interested only in music. 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