Word: jeux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fittingly, Boulez's tour will end in New York, where he will be reunited with his old orchestra. That program is vintage Boulez: Stravinsky, Debussy (the obscure, elusive Jeux), and a work of his own, Improvisations sur Mallarme, I, II, and III. The conductor's six seasons in Manhattan were not, on the whole, happy ones. "My life would have been simplified by a more positive response," he observes dryly. But he is likely to find a more receptive climate for his ideas now. Today's audience has been exposed to a range of idioms from serialism to minimalism. Boulez...