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...late great rival, Arnold Schoenberg (this technique is built on a freely selected series of individual tones rather than on the limited, key-oriented diatonic scale). But Stravinsky has added some of his own style to the serial method. In his book, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Doubleday; $4), Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added his own sketch of his own recent music (see cut). The knobs in the sketch stand for notes, suggest that Stravinsky wants...
...Otto uses a garish circus scene throughout the opera, changes scenes merely by changing the props. In the Paris sequence, Otto projects Lulu's progress on a huge screen, in drawings recalling Toulouse-Lautrec; the last one shows Lulu standing naked with black handprints all over her body. Conductor Georg Solti leads his cast and huge orchestra with deft skill, and at each performance Soprano Helga Pilarczyk scores triumphs in the fiendishly difficult title role...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. Using mostly scripts of his notable TV shows, the conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...
...Fifth Symphony and began tootling the opening bars of the music they were standing on. The stunt was conceived and conducted by Leonard Bernstein, music's most gifted showman. The proceedings of that TV program and of several others are collected in a bestselling book in which Conductor Bernstein proves himself as handy a man with a pen as he is with a baton...
...tried to avoid the tortuous absurdities of practitioners of the "Music Appreciation Racket" who tangle themselves and their readers in niggling explanations of "the-theme-upside-down-in-the-second-oboe." The result is a book that is fresh, witty and informative. Bernstein meanders through discussions of the conductor's art, the dubbing of movie scores, the grandeur of grand opera, the Americanness of American musical comedy, the prejudice against modern music, and half a dozen other topics - all tending to disprove Bernstein's own thesis that "the only way one can really say anything about music...