Boulez x 3. Musicians and contemporary music. Part II

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Part two of a three-part series in which Pierre Boulez, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, discusses many aspects of performing "contemporary" and "avant garde" music with panels representing the music world. Performances of modern music accompany and illustrate these talks. On this program the conversation concerns how musicians feel about the challenges of modern music, and what new techniques are demanded on players and their instruments. Pieces performed: Varese's "Ionisation" (1933) and Peter Lieberson's "Concerto for Violoncello with Accompanying Trios" (1974). With members of the New York Philharmonic: concertmaster Eliot Chapo, Ralph Mendelson (viola), Orin O'Brian (double bass), Walter Rosenberger (percussion), Stanley Drucker (clarinet).