Pierre Boulez

The crowd at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Heroic Beethoven” program Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl can be forgiven for thinking the heroic meant them, enduring an arctic chill to hear the Third Piano Concerto and Third Symphony. Crazy as.......

The Ojai Music Festival has a long tradition of picking some of the era's most important artists to serve as its music director, a position that rotates annually. But though the festival has sometimes chosen more than one person at a time for the job,...

NEW YORK -- Pierre Boulez, who will turn 85 in March, has slowed slightly. He was here in concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Saturday and Sunday nights at Carnegie Hall, and his purposeful, businesslike walk on and off stage......

The Kyoto Prize is given each year in advanced technology, basic sciences and, as a single category, arts and philosophy. The money is good (50 million yen, which is around $540,000) and some think of it as a kind of......

--Top prize: The 2010 Pritzker Prize -- architecture's highest honor -- has been awarded to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Tokyo firm SANAA who are known for their reticent, ethereal designs. (Los Angeles Times) --Reunited: Tony winner....

French conductor Pierre Boulez has canceled his scheduled Thursday appearance in San Diego due to the lingering meteorological effects of last week's volcano eruption in Iceland. Boulez, 85, was scheduled to perform parts of his piece "Sur Incises" at...

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich received the prestigious Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony Monday at the Stockholm Concert Hall. The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's biggest music award. It was...

Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer often described as a Medici for contemporary classical music, who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez and John Adams, died...

Jacaranda, the illuminating and increasingly important Southland music series, bills itself as "music at the edge of Santa Monica." True enough, its focus courts edginess, if cautiously, and with a mandate on mixing challenging and ear-pleasing fare. And...

Pierre Boulez once infamously called for burning down opera houses as a way of beginning all over again with what seemed, to progressives in the 1950s, a moribund art form. He, of course, kept his matches in his pocket. Thursday night during a Los...

Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86. Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his...

In the summer of 1955, "Stravinsky scarcely moved from Wetherly Drive," writes Stephen Walsh in the newly published second volume of his biography of the composer. Stravinsky scarcely moved because his arthritis was acting up and because he had music to...