Boulez Now
Pierre Boulez , leading composer of the post-war generation, later a powerful and innovative conductor, is now the head of an extraordinary experimental studio in Paris -a huge music laboratory, built specially for him underneath the Pompidou Centre. Here for the past nine years, accompanied by computers and music assistants, he has been developing his most ambitious work to date - Répons,
To celebrate Boulez' 60th birthday, Arena is repeating its award-winning film in which he shares his ideas and methods of working introduces extracts from Repons, and describes his enthusiasm for opening a window on a new world of sound. With the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez Narrator Lyndon Brook Producer ALAN YENTOB
Director BARRIE GAVIN