Building covers the opening of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's revolutionary Paris art centre, the first major example of an ...

An interview with the architect and conductor about the Pierre Boulez Saal, which opens on Saturday with a sprawling, three-hour concert. Despite a $137 million donation pledged in 2007 to build a ...

The visionary conductor and composer Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) was associated with the BBC for nearly 60 years: from an appearance at the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House in 1957 for a ...

Pierre Boulez, a French composer, thundered that “All non-serial composers are useless” (he also damned the Austrian for failing to take his revolution further). Even Stravinsky, Schoenberg ...

In 1982, Lewis moved to Paris to work at IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), Pierre Boulez’s haven for avant-garde and electroacoustic music. After two years ...

Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the ...

The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie has reinforced the BBC’s commitment to Arts and Culture with major new commissions, and ...

Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter) Peter Quantrill Friday, September 6, 2024 Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up ...

This was a startlingly revolutionary concept that influenced nearly every composer who followed, including Pierre Boulez, ...

A Tribute to the Life and Works of Pierre Boulez,” will start at 6 p.m. Mr. Trueman, a composer and fiddler, has developed a “prepared digital piano” app, which was used by members of So ...

Notable composers include Philip Glass, John Adams, Steve Reich, Thomas Adès, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Arvo Pärt, Terry Riley and Charles Ives.

Boulez studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and then with Andrée Vaurabourg (Honegger’s wife) and René Leibowitz. He developed an interest in 12-tone composition. Major early scores ...