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...Mehta move was the grandest, most publicized stroke of all: his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better...
...musicians are equally happy. Says Concertmaster Rodney Friend: "There's a feeling in the orchestra of the beginning of a very exciting and productive period." Others feel that Mehta is an antidote to Boulez's astringency, and that he will bring back some of the fire of the Bernstein days. "Boulez was not trying to reach the audience with spontaneous feeling, or luscious phrasing," says Violinist Oscar Ravina. "We'll be coming closer to that kind of thing with Mehta...
...yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that the age of technology, futuristic abstraction and novel problems in thought and culture demands music suited to and born of this very modernism...
Have you ever wondered what Mozart might create if he were to set out to compose music today? If you haven't, you probably have wondered how Mozart would react to Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, or even Fleetwood Mac. Maybe they're both the same question. In any event, the first question is the one which Larry Livingston, music director of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, will address Tuesday night in the NEC's first "Music After Five" program of the season. Livingston's lecture and demonstration is one of half-a-dozen mostly free classical events this week...
...Dubuffet, who says the ensemble of sculpture is "the sum of twelve years of work," promptly sued "to defend the right of the artist over his creation"-and lost. Undaunted, he has appealed the case, supported by a group of painters, musicians and writers, including Joan Miró, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Eugène Ionesco. Meanwhile, Renault has started to bury the concrete base and central basin of the monument. They plan to turn the 2,150-sq.-yd. area into a lawn...