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Between May 1949 and August 1954 the composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage exchanged a series of remarkable letters that reflect on their own music and the culture of the time. This correspondence, together with other relevant documents, has been edited and annotated by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and is now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition. ... Read more

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the early seeds of modernitydiscussed in brief letters.
John Cage was the first to introduce Pierre Boulez to the United States. In New York he took Boulez around visiting painters and musicians, this was the early Fifties. David Tudor(long a Cage friend) was performing Boulez'sSecond Piano Sonata for the first time. Bookstores were frequent stops andBoulez( we learn) never heard of the poet e.e.cummings, and bought a modestbook of his poetry. Some thirty years later Boulez set a text of cummingsfor 22 unaccompanied voices. This correspondence was between two innovatorscoming from radically different places yet stopping at the same conceptualplaces. And it is a shame that this friendship fell out quickly,each goinginto radically different venues. Boulez although fascinated with chanceprocedures(which Cage had been working with the I Ching, Book of Changes atthat time) Boulez was arrongantly fascinated by the aesthetic object,itshistory and attenuation, and has remained so since. This correspondence hasfrequent entries on the concept of indeterminacy, again Boulez comes to itvia Mallarme, and aleatoric thinking, the throwing of the dice.Boulezsought a musical structure that contained the element of chance as in hisThird Piano Sonata in the latter Fifties. Both however were at a creativeplace in modernity when the Western canon of structure andcomprehensibility was falling itself.However it is odd for Boulez to thisday thinks of his work as moments containing a "freedom" ofsomething, when he conducts Mahler, he thinks of those passages that arefreer than others,like a symphony is a dialogue between the two. Mahler'sSixth Symphony is the case in point. There are letters of Boulez to Cage,while in South America with the Barrault Theatre Company, one entryincludes a description from Boulez that he is having a good time"milhauding" around, referring to Darius Milhaud the composer whofrequently utilized folk elelments in his music by collecting them involumes.Nattiez is a very sympathetic observer to this cause of modernityand the roots of things. ... Read more

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Title: Boulez: Sur Incises; Messagesquisse; Anthemes 2 Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello/Hae-Sun Kang, violin/ Ensemble Interconemporain/Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon 289 463 475-2).(Review) (sound recording review)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pierre Boulez (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor.Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics. He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg. It was through Messiaen that he discovered twelve-tone technique ? which he would later study privately with René Leibowitz ? and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style.Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead. ... Read more

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Title: Pierre Boulez en Valencia.
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Chapters: Pierre Boulez, Pierre Monteux, Paul Paray, Roger Désormière, Carlos Salzedo, Henri Tomasi, Paul Méfano, Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Munch, André Messager, René Leibowitz, Claude-Paul Taffanel, Nadia Boulanger, Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, Michel Colombier, Stéphane de Gérando, Hyacinthe Jadin, Albert Wolff, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Désiré Dondeyne, Vladimir Cosma, Alfred Cortot, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, Joseph-François Kremer, Jules Garcin, Damien Top, Manuel Rosenthal, Jean-Luc Fillon, Antoine Mariotte, Adolphe Deloffre, William Christie, Jean-Yves Malmasson, Antonio de Almeida, Louis Beydts, Jules Semler-Collery, Jean-Paul Penin, Stéphane Denève, Rhené-Baton, Louis Langrée, Alain Lombard, Philippe Entremont, Vladimir Golschmann, Diego Masson, Jean Fournet, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Michel Plasson, Marc Minkowski, Georges Tzipine, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Antoine Marguier, André Cluytens, Franck Pourcel, Vincent Monteil, Henri Büsser, Christophe Rousset, Georges Prêtre, Henri Christiné, Édouard Colonne, Jean Martinon, Charles Lamoureux, Emmanuel Leducq-Barome, Ludovic Morlot, Hervé Niquet, Henri Rabaud, Jules Danbé, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat, Georges Marty, Emmanuel Krivine, François Antoine Habeneck, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Georges Sébastian, Gabriel Grovlez, Henri-Claude Fantapié, François Ruhlmann, Ernest Bour, Jean-Louis Petit, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Louis Antoine Jullien, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Paul Kuentz, Gilbert Amy, Marcel Labey, Pascal Verrot, Serge Baudo, Edouard Deldevez, Philippe Gaubert, Eugène Goossens, Fils, Bertrand de Billy, Paul Bastide, François George-Hainl, Louis Frémaux, François-Xavier Roth, Paul Vidal, Walther Straram, Pierre Dervaux, Charles Bruck, Narcisse Girard, Charles Constantin, Yan Pascal Tortelier, François Rauber, David Grandis, Alphonse Varney, Jean-Claude Amiot, Patrick Fournillier, Patrick Gallois, Jésus Etcheverry, Jules Pasdeloup, Pierre-Louis Dietsch, Georges Martin Witk...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66592 ... Read more

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Title: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Mahler: Totenfeier Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon 289 457 649-2).
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