Boulez the optimist

Pierre Boulez on the classical audience's receptivity to modern and contemporary music: "20% are very interested in new things, 50% can be persuaded and 30% are in their coffins before their time."

The 83-year-old enfant terrible-turned-patriarch, profiled by Nicholas Wroe in The Guardian:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2276332,00.html