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...apartments, not New Mexico. I assumed that because of the opera and the chamber festival, the audience would be sophisticated. When I talked to people about what they wanted to see, everybody, but absolutely everybody, said Neil Simon. I found we had an audience that knew about Hindemith and Stockhausen but nothing about the theater. The Front Page was as close to Neil Simon as we could get with an American classic...
...McCartney wrote for the Beatles, separately and together, brought more people up against the joy and boldness of rock music than anything else ever has. It wasn't just that Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein were taking the Beatles as seriously-and a good deal more affectionately-than Stockhausen. The worldwide appeal of the Beatles had to do with their perceived innocence, their restless idealism that stayed a step...
...pianist of comparable stature can match Pollini as an exponent of contemporary music. His programs feature the works of Webern, Schoenberg, Boulez, Stockhausen and his friend Luigi Nono, alongside more standard offerings. "The music of today is a mirror of our time, of its problems," he says. "Why is it normal to be interested in Picasso and Joyce and not in Schoenberg and Stockhausen?" He has sometimes paid for this conviction by being booed at performances, an experience that he shrugs off: "No response at all would be worse." Once, in Vienna, a Stockhausen score called for him to strike...
This radical method, so little acknowledged during Webern's lifetime, was eagerly embraced by the generation that came after him, the generation of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
Boulez is a formidable force in modern music as composer, conductor and theorist. After two decades spent largely in Germany and the U.S., he has returned to France as virtually sole programmer of his country's musical future. Says Composer Karl Heinz Stockhausen: "IRCAM is the only place in the world where there is free enterprise for the development of new music. Pierre Boulez is the most lucid and brilliant of directors...