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Article: Pierre Boulez brings brave new music to Chicago
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 16, 1986
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Pierre Boulez is one of the central figures in the music of the past
40 years. He is, unfortunately, far too little known and far too
little appreciated in Chicago. Works such as "Le marteau sans
maitre" (1954) or "Pli selon pli" (1960), both landmarks in the
music of this century, are essentially unknown here, and the
situation is rather as if in 1943, Chicago audiences had yet to hear
Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps." (In fact that no less
revolutionary work was played by the Chicago Symphony as early as
1924.)
Part of the problem is that Boulez is a remarkable conductor
(Chicago knows him in that role from his appearances here with the
CSO and the Cleveland Orchestra), and Georg ...
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December 11, 1994 ;
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... ... 120-$135 (312) 435-6666; Pierre Boulez is the Sister Mary Ignatius of composer ... s haranguing tone, of course. But Boulez, who is back in Chicago through Saturday ... audiences have listened with fascination as Boulez uses the CSO podium, open Civic Orchestra ...
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