A stunning tribute to the bogeyman of musical modernism, plus the best of October’s classical concerts and opera
Arnold Scoenberg’s music can be madly excessive and thorny but this wonderful concert revealed its beauty and titanic force ...
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Remembering Schoenberg: London Sinfonietta gives eloquent testimony to his greatness
At the Southbank Centre vivid performance of seminal works shows how Schoenberg added colours to the Chameleon and enriched ...
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The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Schönberg
An early photo shows little Arnold in Vienna holding the hand of his Jewish mother. The five-year-old's gaze was already filled with curiosity and energy. When he died in Los Angeles in 1951 at the ...
Opinion | Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-Tone Revolution Turns 100
One hundred years ago, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) gathered his students together and offered the details of a dramatic new ...
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Ax masterfully illuminates contrasts and convergence in Celebrity Series recital
The E-flat major effort is, like the Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, essentially epigrammatic, though painted on a bigger canvas.
Review: Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Schoenberg
The New York Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher brought dramatic urgency to “Pelleas und Melisande” in commemoration of ...
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Zukerman Performance and Schoenberg Composition Showcase Jewish Musical Talent
With a Jewish soloist, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, in the first half of the program and a tone poem by a Jewish composer, Arnold Schoenberg, in the second half, last Sunday’s San Diego Symphony ...
New York Classical Review10d
Love is all around Philharmonic, from Pintscher to Mendelssohn to Schoenberg
The overarching theme of Thursday’s intriguing program of the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, was ...