The generation of composers born in the 1920s, from György Ligeti (1923-2006) to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), dictated the tone of radical modernity that prevailed in Europe from the early 1950s to the end of the 1920s. 1960. The important celebration (concerts throughout France, conferences, publications) of centenary of the birth of Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), placed under the general curatorship of Laurent Bayle, begins on Monday January 6 at the Philharmonie de Paris with a program from the Ensemble intercontemporain including, among others, the legendary Answer.
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This XXL tribute eclipses that which the year 2025 should also pay to Luciano Berio (1925-2003), the other representative of the “dream team” of a historical avant-garde. We will have to wait until March 13, during the recital of the violinist Aya Kono at the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, as part of the Monte-Carlo Spring of Arts, to witness a confrontation between Boulez and Berio which we are surprised to see Nor is it the subject of current reflection, as it allows us to consider the common contribution of these two personalities and to clarify their respective contours.
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