An iconoclastic composer and thrilling conductor, Pierre Boulez changed the course of 20th-century music. He was also polite, gentle and very funny“Schoenberg is dead”; “Blow up the opera houses”; “Authenticity is a nightmare”; Henze? “rubbish”. Verdi? “dum de dum, nothing more”. Shostakovich? “the … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian