Boulez

������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.

He was an architect in sound who made sonic edifices of a Beethoven sonata, or a Boulez one, that left you in awe.