Pierre Boulez: ‘Certainly I Was A Bully. I’m Not Ashamed Of It At All”

Says music’s éminence grise of former enfants terribles: “The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.” And he still has plenty of opinions – about Cage, Adams, Carter, Messiaen, C major…