Le marteau sans maître - I.

Pierre Boulez - Le marteau sans maître
Une production
Codes d'accès et Théâtre la Chapelle
Montréal -- Novembre 2007
Cristian Gort, direction musicale; Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano; Étienne Guérin, guitare; Marie-Ève Lessard, alto; Marie-Hélène Breault, flûte alto; Philip Hornsey, vibraphone; Catherine Meunier, xylophone; Corinne René, percussions

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Music

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• M-A.Béliveau
• M-H.Breault
• C.Gort
• É.Guérin
• Ph.Hornsey
• M-È.Lessard
• C.Meunier
• C.René
• Le
• marteau
• sans
• maître;
• Pierre
• Boulez;
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• d'accès
• et
• Théâtre
• la
• Chapelle

[dhype3]

I don't understand how people who don't understand modern music arrive on these kinds of videos....And I myself love a good polemical essay. Read "Orientations", a compilation of his early essays - he's much less black and white than you'd think, and offers more than enough justification for his views. And since then, one of his main traits is his ability to question and even contradict his earlier statements, which is the mark of an intelligent human being.

[liveloud4life]

@humanwarnings The whole point of the movement you're referring to was in response and opposition to the Nazi party. The nazis loved Wagnerism and Romantic era music and therefore every post-war German composer for the next 50 years and everyone ever involved in the Darmstadt conferences wanted to be as far away from that as possible and ignore every traditional element of music that the Nazis supported. So saying that Boulez was a Nazi is about the most ass-backwards, ignorant thing ever.

[chairrest35]

For all you doubters of this music, of course you have the right not to like it but, Stravinsky considered it a great masterpiece. Is it just possible he may have known what he was talking about?

[NaKasieWBiedronce]

@dhype3

Because we an exam where we have to know how it sounds and what is the name of it..

[Ooger77]

@soben001 Do tell how I do not understand. Enlighten us.

[aggelosf1]

oh my god! absolutely marvelous!

[HappySkyDiver33]

When the piece ends don't even clap, when you're listening to it live - neither to the composer, nor to the players - they just did their job, the whole jazz has ended, the task is done for everybody. Go home. Don't tell anybody a thing about it. don't try to recall the event even. Just live your life and be well. And most importantly: listen - as frequently as possible.

[HappySkyDiver33]

These days judgement of this kind of music is meaningless. One has to listen only, to the sounds that are. Not make up any mind, not create ideas or any inner comments even to himself about it. This is pure sound, as it is, and our task is to be open and pure perceivers of sound. I intentionally don't use the word 'music'.

[TheUnforgivent]

LOL