Pierre Boulez turns 80

seraph · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: Pierre Boulez turns 80

'A master who worked with a very small hammer'

He has gone from being the bad boy of classical music to one of its grand old men. As Pierre Boulez turns 80, some of the world's greatest composers give their verdict on the high priest of modernism.

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mosc · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:09 am Post subject:

Just curious. How many members here are into Boulez's music?

I for one am not all that familiar with his stuff. I am a classical music buff and Juli and I go to a lot of concerts in New York so we've heard a bit of his music performed. I never heard anything that lit my fire like say Ligeti or Berio.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:22 am Post subject:

http://home.flash.net/~jronsen/boulez.html

seraph · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:36 am Post subject:

The destruction of over 100 Pierre Boulez LPs, CDs, tapes and books sounds a lot like Fahrenheit 451 to me even if a could agree with the following quote:

mosc · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:50 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:03 am Post subject:

not quite...

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mosc · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

I meant these days.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:32 am Post subject:

Uh.. right.. Texas..

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Roland Kuit · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:43 am Post subject:

He is not my favorite composer. Most French (electro)classical music sounds "nice". Not daring. But, however, he made it possible, to create an unique "school". And they're resurch possibility's are wonderful( i know, i've been there). I had some teaching from P. Manoury and K. Sariaho.
And don't forget "Sale Espace" with a very good speaker system(great for 3D granular synthesis) and moving walls. So if you don't like his music or music under his influence, YOU can show how music must be composed and must be sounding. So he showed you how it NOT to do, so be grateful to him for that.