My Playbill feature on the NY Philharmonic’s homage to its former music director as the music world marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Boulez in 2025:
In March 1969 Pierre Boulez — then 43 — made his New York Philharmonic debut conducting a month of concerts. The engagement, which included a much-discussed performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, quickly resolved the question of who would succeed Leonard Bernstein as Music Director. A mere three months later came the announcement officially appointing Boulez to the post…
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 