When local listeners last heard from French composer Pierre Boulez in March, heor at least his compositionsempowered the gleeful demolition of the piano, the musical establishment and our way of ...

Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, “Schoenberg Is Dead,” that instantly became infamous. The young firebrand composer accused the most ...

Reporting from New York — Pierre Boulez, everyone says, has mellowed. A half-century ago, he was famed as a maestro with a frighteningly formidable ear, a French composer of frightfully formidable ...

Savor the next two weeks with the Cleveland Orchestra. It could be a while until Pierre Boulez returns to Severance Hall. It's not his health that's the concern. Happily, as his 85th birthday nears, ...

Pierre Boulez, who died this week at age 90, didn’t start out trying to make friends. In 1952, the young French classical musician claimed that any composer who didn’t see the value of Arnold ...

Solution for music lovers in need of a break from regional cloud disorder: Head to Severance Hall, where Pierre Boulez is bringing out the sun with the Cleveland Orchestra. Boulez has the great ...

Pierre Boulez, the infant terrible of classical music in the 20th Century and eminence grise of the 21st, died Tuesday at the age of 90. Boulez was the champion of fellow atonal composers throughout ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Abroad By Michael Kimmelman LUCERNE, Switzerland IN a maroon turtleneck and loose-fitting gray suit, eyes on his score, Pierre Boulez took turns one ...

Pierre Boulez, the composer and conductor, who has died aged 90, was one of the seminal figures of music in the second half of the 20th century. He led the avant-garde in the 1950s and, to use a ...

Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor whose career spanned from the avant-garde post-World War II era to the computer age, has died, according to the French culture ministry. He was 90.