Pierre Boulez

Redemption and uplifting triumph. Those longtime themes of U2's music also applied to the veteran Irish band's career trajectory as its "comeback" album earned a field-leading eight nominations for the 44th Grammy Awards, including album, song and...

On Feb. 21 at Staples Center, the 43rd Grammy Awards will present three hours of festive congratulations featuring what the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences considers the brightest and best of pop music. And once again, the wallflowers at...

Last year, a year overshadowed by 9/11, was a time of waiting, a time of sober self-examination. There was a lot of entertainment that was beyond mindless, of course. But still, some of the fluff started to slip away -- the fake "singing stars" of...

By enlarging our view of the world through working with gestures and shapes, Pierre Boulez and Frank Gehry have, to a remarkable extent, made modern music and architecture unthinkable without them. It is not so much the material — be it abstract...

Most Wins Georg Solti:31 Quincy Jones: 27 Vladimir Horowitz: 25 Pierre Boulez: 24 Stevie Wonder: 21 Henry Mancini: 20 John Williams: 18 Most Nominations Quincy Jones: 79 Georg Solti: 73 Henry Mancini: 72 Stevie Wonder: 64 Leonard Bernstein: 63...

There was a story Frank Zappa liked to tell about the time in the late '60s when he and the Mothers of Invention were booked, along with Woody Herman's big band, to play a dinner for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.Seeing as these were...