The article describes him as 'the acknowledged leader of the "new music"', and it is in no small part that his provocative early works contributed to such recognition.

He tells me an illuminating story concerning one of his more provocative early works, a drawing of his signature.

Will the opera house/orchestra/festival in question dedicate itself to provocative new works or comforting chestnuts?

It is important to understand that ingenious serialist composers everywhere were writing exciting and provocative works.

He did a great service in presenting these big, provocative orchestral works but his conducting was a little strait-laced.

Administrators often have to apply sensible guidelines for provocative works, and rarely draw news media attention when they do so, he said.

A Thousand Years, one of Hirst's most provocative and engaging works, contains an actual life cycle.

He is known for his provocative works and is often referred to as his country's enfant terrible.

Even curators acknowledge that some artists make provocative works as a career move, knowing it will bring them media attention.

Some Cuban artists say provocative works are partly calculated to sell to foreign collectors as curiosities from one of the world's last remaining Communist regimes.