The Latest Breaking News from Pierre Boulez

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Arts administrator who founded the London Sinfonietta and led the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne

The ensemble is lauded across the classical world. The BBC Singers inspire, educate and entertain, and their closure matters to us all. Here is why

The singing superstar overtakes British-Hungarian conductor Georg Solti as the most decorated artist in Grammys history

Composer Ned Rorem has died at 99

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery

US punk icon Iggy Pop and the French contemporary music Ensemble intercontemporain founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize.