Boulez

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth with an extravagance of sonic invention and dance.

������ever your jam, be it painting, photography or sculpture, Beyoncé, Boulez or AC/DC, “Hamlet,” Ibsen, stand-up or show tunes, our critics have a recommendation for you.

Boulez, who died nine years ago, would have been 100 last Wednesday.

And the orchestra has had notable affairs with the unlikely likes of Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez.

In February, the Jacaranda new music series, shutting down after two decades of indispensable concerts, went out with a Schoenbergian bang, connecting the composer to Hollywood, Mahler, Coltrane and Boulez.