Notes
8 June 2012
Backstage Boulez
We caught up backstage at the Metropolitan Museum with two of the principal players in this weekend’s performances of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series.
Hear what Principal Flute Robert Langevin and IRCAM computer music designer Carlo Laurenzi have to say about Pierre Boulez’s … explosante-fixe …, which weaves an electronic orchestra with flutes and a chamber ensemble.
Langevin talks about his first experience playing MIDI flute, and Laurenzi describes working on the piece with Boulez, IRCAM founder and Philharmonic Music Director from 1971–77.
