# Talking with Ensemble Intercontemporain

Matthias Pintscher, Herve Boutry and Nicholas Brown discuss the Washington, D.C. debut of the world-renowned Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Library of Congress. Their wide ranging discussion covered the influence of founding director Pierre Boulez, the concert repertoire (works by Berg, Ligeti, Varese, Pintscher, and Lash), and the act of listening to contemporary art music in live performance. This conversation took place as news broke of the November 13, 2015, Bataclan terrorist attacks in Paris and includes a discussion of the intersection between contemporary music and the human experience.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: History, Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689959/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2021689959?play=1)