Sometimes I feel like Boulez is the luckiest fart in all of postwar composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvati dunque e scolpati] Reference

Boulez the composer was serving Boulez the maestro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

An extremely bad photo of Pierre Boulez at the premiere.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Belle Hélène] Reference

Apparently Mahler's music has some value to Maestro Boulez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spark plugs and transmissions] Reference

In response to Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf (January 29, 1970).    From Wordnik.com.  [Champions] Reference

And at IRCAM, Boulez, who has always seemed ill at ease in New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Oh, wait - the NY Phil tried that under Boulez back in the '70s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it] Reference

Boulez captures these qualities better than anyone else ever has.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Just after Le Marteau, Boulez began to conduct -- often rather shakily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Boulez can be heard at his best in his new recordings of Debussy's ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

But there are two other Boulez qualities he isn't often given credit for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference

Boulez has compared the music of his favorite composers to the paintings of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

IT would be tempting to blame the fall of Boulez the composer on the rise of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

And in the hands of Boulez and the Chicago Symphony, one of his most sparkling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference

Boulez will open up a new world for you -- as Webern did for him so many years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

While corresponding with Cage (their letters have now been published), Boulez composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Just among twentieth-century composers Boulez does not perform Prokofiev, Shostakovich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

It struck a nice anarchic counterpoint to the more minutely heard soundworld of Boulez.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Sinfonietta/Collon – review] Reference

I remember sitting with Mom at Orchestra Hall, watching Dad play Beethoven under Boulez.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traveler's Wife]

Reversing a line of Wallace Stevens, Boulez might say that music is sounds, not feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Eggs Boulez: Arrange a row of eggs; multiply the first three eggs by the second two eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Serve Man] Reference

Pretty soon, I was using my pocket money for music by Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage and Xenakis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Musical Adventurer Comes to Play] Reference

Boulez conducts these pieces as if they were his own, stripping them of their historical roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

But Boulez really conveys the grandeur as well as the delicacy of Haydn's magnificent conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference

Composers like Boulez, Cage and Berio cited him explicitly; hundreds more set his poems to music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of the Artist as a Music Fan] Reference

Where Boulez had seen the future of music emerging from a crossbreeding of elements from the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

But in 1953 Boulez turned again to the poetry of René Char and began to write Le Marteau sans maître.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

This may sound narcissistic, but it has enabled Boulez to bring unique insights to his interpretations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Making sense of Pierre Boulez, one of the most puzzling figures in the music of our time. by David Schiff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Table of Contents] Reference

This is an opera that, in this country at least, still lives in the shadow of Pierre Boulez and Teresa Stratas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

(Soundbite of orchestral music) GOODMAN: Boulez made five Grammy Award-winning recordings with the Cleveland Orchestra.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 80, Boulez Makes a Grand Tour] Reference

Modernist music, as Boulez understands it, emphasizes color and rhythm rather than the more familiar melody and harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Boulez and Stockhausen became, to my ear, much less schematic and more idiosyncratic, which to me is always less simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are we there yet?] Reference

Yet by 1963 Boulez could lead a knock-your-socks-off rendition of Le Sacre du printemps that challenged Stravinsky's own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

Other conductors tend to go in the opposite direction from Boulez, shrouding the music in some kind of impressionist fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debussy's 'La Mer' Marks 100th Birthday] Reference

It works the other way around, too: the scorched-earth Boulez took his cues from the early-music-editing Webern, for instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take a picture, sweetie; I ain't got time to waste] Reference

The final show on Saturday started off with a rather Messiaenic sounding … explosante-fixe … from the mind of Pierre Boulez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

From the early 1960s on Boulez devoted more and more time to conducting -- first at the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference

And in the early 1960s, George Szell hired him to guest conduct the Cleveland Orchestra and encouraged Boulez to program new music.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 80, Boulez Makes a Grand Tour] Reference