One of the major figures of post-war classical music, composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was born March 26, 1925! He was known for his polemical ideas in music, for instance, "any musician who has not experienced—I do not say understood, but truly experienced—the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch." I always think of him because of his recording of Wagner's "Ring" cycle, which was broadcast on PBS in the 1980s--when Beth and I were dating!
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