[dB Cooper]

Don't know a lot about him but he did advocate for the music of Frank Zappa, which makes him a good guy in my book.

[simoon]

Great contemporary composer. Possibly a bit under appreciated.

Not under appreciated at all for his conducting, however. He was brilliant.

As a fan of Zappa, I also appreciate his being an advocate for Zappa's classical music. But more importantly, he was a
great conductor and advocate of modernism in general.

As much as I like Zappa's classical music, there were better and more important 20th century and contemporary composers that Boulez conducted.

A real loss for us fans of 20th century and contemporary classical.

[Rob Babcock]

Wow!  I hadn't heard of this just now.   We've lost too many great ones lately.

[Kenneth Patchen]

There they go ... Xenakis, Ligeti, Feldman, Cage, Henze, Berio, Nono, Kagel, Lutoslawski, Carter - who's left?
George Crumb ... not many others from that generation. Sad, this passing of time.