One of the endearing aspects of Pierre Boulez’s concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — concerts often assumed to be more esteemed than beloved — is their periodic observance of anniversaries ...

When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992 at age 83, there was no doubt that he was a major figure of 20th century music, a great French composer and an important link between Ravel and Pierre Boulez. But ...

Talk about shattering the staid old subscription concert format. For Pierre Boulez’s “Rituel,” the first piece on conductor David Robertson’s marathon program Thursday at Symphony Center, the CSO was ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It has become a familiar ritual. Pierre Boulez, pope of modernism, crosses the Channel to preach the gospel of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The young Pierre Boulez was like a lion flayed alive, according to his mentor, Olivier Messiaen. There was a terrible purity to the fire ...

The 20th Century Unlimited keeps chugging along. Pierre Boulez`s selective exploration of European modernism reached week two Thursday night at Orchestra Hall. Because our guest conductor does not ...

Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, a towering figure in contemporary music, was an enfant terrible who mellowed with age but never flagged from his crusade to push music lovers and the music ...

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, a maverick composer and conductor who once worked on one of Frank Zappa‘s classical albums, died at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany on Tuesday. He was 90. The Philharmonie de Paris ...

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.