How To Use Boulez In A Sentence
- PIERRE BOULEZ. Is there really only lack of attention, indifference on the part of the listener toward contemporary music?
- Paradoxically, this is not a major addition to the Bruckner discography, but it is a major addition to the Boulez discography.
- Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit.
- One would think that all those cellos would produce a thick, tubby sound, but Boulez's rhythmic and contrapuntal virtuosity keep the music lively and athletic.
- It's a mystery, and it seems to happen every time Boulez gets involved with opera.
- To the world (perhaps I should say, to the opera world) at large, things have been going along relatively smoothly at Bayreuth since the centennial year 1976, when Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez created a sensation by their bouleversement of Der Ring des Niebelungen, and when the former director of the festival, Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of Richard, did likewise by celebrating her Nazi past on camera for Hans Jürgen Syberberg. Bayreuth Blues
- Only three maestros in history - Mahler, Boulez and Bernstein - have achieved commensurate recognition as composers, and all three were composers before they began to conduct.
- Boulez in Bruckner and Haitink in Beethoven - what more can you ask for? Brian Dickie: That was the decade that was!
- Boulez calls the piece a ceremony of remembrance and extinction and the way in which these musics appear and gradually dissolve is very moving, very simple, very still.
- I also vividly remember attending the BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres of Stravinsky's Requiem canticles and Boulez's Eclat, in which she took a leading part.
