Pierre Boulez News

The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela has taken Toronto by storm. In a whirlwind of events this week the founder and leading spirit of the orchestra, Jose Antonio Abreu, was in town to accept the $50,000 Glenn Gould Prize, whose past recipients have included the likes of Oscar Peterson, Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Boulez.

On Saturday, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the 21st Century Ensemble will open the 19th season of Discoveries, a series of performances of contemporary classical music pieces.

The pianist Taka Kigawa has built a loyal following with his annual recitals at the Greenwich House Music School, and when he moved a few blocks east to Le Poisson Rouge on Monday evening, his listeners came with him.

When the S.C. Philharmonic played Mahler's First Symphony on May 2nd it just missed the national MahlerFest that took place a couple of weeks later.

The Inamori Foundation today announced that Mr. Pierre Boulez will be among the 25th annual laureates of its Kyoto Prize, an international award honoring significant contributions to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind.

In 1955, Igor Stravinsky came, even though his dressing room was a tent. In 1967, Pierre Boulez came, even though he had to postpone conducting a concert until a Santa Paula train finished whistling by.