Columbia Throws Birthday Celebration for French Composer Pierre Boulez

Columbia News.

December 17, 2010
Pierre Boulez leading one of the New York Philharmonic’s so-called rug concerts in 1975.Credit. Jack Mitchell.

Few birthday parties involve a film screening, panel discussion and concert, but that is exactly how Columbia celebrated the 85th birthday of world-renowned French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. 

Boulez is known for his work with atonal experimentation in postwar classical music and for his radical and sometimes contentious viewpoints on music and art.

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