But the real problem is that not all big ideas can be distilled into a pithy sentence: Pierre Boulez is quoted as claiming the best solution to the problems facing opera would be to blow up the opera ...

In the late 1960s, a decidedly horrible show at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood led to the Alice Cooper Band crossing paths with the legendarily eccentric Frank Zappa.

A live, Boulez-themed edition of the New Music Show from the BBC’s Maida Vale studios in London. Performing specially commissioned music - and music by Pierre Boulez - will be Caoutchouc and ...

Live from London's Milton Court, musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform music by Pierre Boulez as Radio 3 pays tribute to the influential composer and conductor. Show more Live ...

Live from the Barbican in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, pianist Tamara Stefanovich and soprano Anna Dennis perform landmark works by Pierre Boulez. Show more Live from the ...

As a child, Frank Zappa played with mercury—an anecdote as bizarre as it is true. His father, a chemist in the defence industry, would bring home used lab equipment, passing it to his pre-adolescent ...

When John Cage knocked on Pierre Boulez’s Paris door in 1949, he could hardly have expected to find not only a great friend but also a composer whose rigorous musical curiosity matched his own – at ...

For a man who preached about love and peace so much, though, John Lennon could be cutthroat when he wanted to as well, and Frank Zappa was less than thrilled looking back on everything they did ...

And he did it again Sunday afternoon in Weill Recital Hall, in a concert for Pierre Boulez’ centennial (his birthday is March 26) with another superlative performance. As obvious as it is ...

Let’s begin with the cover. Frank Zappa knew exactly what he was doing by lampooning The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released just seven months previously. While his ...

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