Music Man - R.I.P.

Pierre Boulez - it takes all sorts, and the fact that I can find nothing attractive or worthy in his "music" does not mean that he was not an important figure - perhaps one of the most important - in 20th century classical music.  And I'm sure he would have taken that last sentence as a compliment, because he is on record as saying that he had no time for composers who wrote to "please the public". If you want an idea of the sort of stuff he wrote, go into the kitchen, collect up your pots, pans, cups and glasses, and then bang them together and throw them round the room.  I feel he will be remembered in the long term more as a conductor and theoretician than as a composer - but I could be wrong.