Letters: Boulez and the Quo

Dr Gordon Downie is quite wrong to suggest (Letters, 5 October) that the modernism of Pierre Boulez's music was a threat to the aesthetic of the Status Quo. While the two met infrequently, often in airport lounges or motorway Little Chefs, there was an easy familiarity with each other's oeuvre and a camaraderie born of a shared passion for recondite music and red sauce bottles shaped like a tomato.The Quo referred to the composer as "Wooly Boulez" in tribute to an elegaic US 60s hit record by an...

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