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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The pièce de résistance in Boulez's continuing campaign to rediscover Debussy is the London Royal Opera's new setting of Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only opera (1902). Debussy believed that in opera "nothing should impede the progress of the drama-all...
Some listeners regard the result as a denial of song. But last week, conducting a performance of the new production, Boulez turned Pelleas into a musical affirmation by treating the drama not as a fairy tale but a human story. Thus he brought passion and pain to a work that...
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Pointillist Fragments. Such conducting underlines another of Boulez's crucial attitudes on Debussy: "Far from being a historical dead end, his music contains the sources of a great deal of 20th century music." To the ears of his ; contemporaries, Debussy's novelty lay in his exotic harmonies, in...
It was innovations like these, says Boulez, that make him still contemporary today. Boulez should know. As a leading avant-garde composer himself (Pli selon pli), he is the outstanding exponent of Debussyean principles. "My performances of Debussy are not just historical reconsiderations," he says. "The only masterpieces that are...