Tod Machover will host two special events on November 23 and 24 celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pierre Boulez, one of the most influential composers and conductors of the 20th century and a transformative figure in international music and culture.

Monday, November 23, at 7:30 PM: A two-piano recital featuring acclaimed pianists Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat. The program interweaves seminal piano works by Pierre Boulez with music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Frank Zappa, Magnus Lindberg, and Olivier Messiaen—composers whose works echo, anticipate, or challenge Boulez’s vision across modernist, experimental, and boundary-crossing musical traditions.

Featuring chapters from Boulez’s rarely heard Structures Books I and II, the concert traces the rich artistic dialogue between Boulez and the composers whose music surrounds his own. Together, these works reveal Boulez not only as one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers, but also as an artist whose ideas have an increasing, surprising potential to resonate across generations, genres, and musical traditions.

Tuesday, November 24, at 2:00 PM: Gloria Cheng and Tod Machover will lead a workshop exploring Boulez as a composer, music technologist, and institution-builder, uncovering the white-hot “organized delirium” beneath the cerebral surface of his work.

Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat will also perform excerpts from Tod Machover’s Re-Structures, a work for two pianos and electronics composed in celebration of Boulez’s 90th birthday.